“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me.
Here lie they and here lie we under the spreading chestnut tree’’.- George Orwell, 1984.