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1984 Quotes
1984 by George Orwell
1984
by George Orwell
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: truth
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: inspirational
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War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war
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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: books, reading
Like Likes: 4157
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: secrets
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: language, power-of-words, propaganda, thought
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: future
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
George Orwell, 1984
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell, 1984
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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: conscious, rebel
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Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: power
Like Likes: 1918
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
George Orwell, 1984
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: 1984
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
George Orwell, 1984
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Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
George Orwell, 1984
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Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. 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
Tags: truth
Like Likes: 1509
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: 1984, human, intellectual, mind, reality
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: political
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Big Brother is Watching You.
George Orwell, 1984
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: absurd
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: 1984
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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: 1984, nineteen-eighty-four
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For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: ethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, philosophy, psychology, science
Like Likes: 1160
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
George Orwell, 1984
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Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: orthodoxy
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: enemies
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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
Tags: 1984, future, history, past, present
Like Likes: 729
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: betrayal, confession, love
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Sanity is not statistical.
George Orwell, 1984
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You are a slow learner, Winston.”
“How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.”
“Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
George Orwell, 1984
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: die, freedom, hate
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, agony, agony-of-torture, chronic-pain, pain, torture
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The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: oppression, power, terrorism, torture
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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: dictatorship
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The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
George Orwell, 1984
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We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: power
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If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: 1984, george-orwell, politics, socialism, totalitarianism
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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
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: dystopia
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Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
There lie they, and here lie we
Under the spreading chestnut tree.
George Orwell, 1984
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Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O’Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O’Brien: You do not exist.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: 1984, big-brother, george, george-orwell, government, orwell
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It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: dystopia, fear-of-the-future, inequality, poverty, society
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
George Orwell, 1984
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الولاء يعني انعدام التفكير، بل انعدام الحاجة للتفكير، الولاء هو عدم الوعي.
جورج أورويل, 1984
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: revolutionary
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Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: 1984
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What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
George Orwell, 1984
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The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: contradiction, doublethink, hypocrisy
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So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
George Orwell, 1984
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Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: power, realism, truth
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إننا ندرك أنه ما من أحد يمسك بزمام السلطة وهو ينتوي التخلي عنها.
إن السلطة ليست وسيلة بل غاية، فالمرء لا يقيم حكما استبداديا لحماية الثورة، وإنما يشعل الثورة لإقامة حكم استبدادي.
إن الهدف من الاضطهاد هو الاضطهاد، والهدف من التعذيب هو التعذيب وغاية السلطة هي السلطة، هل بدأت تفهم ما أقول الآن ؟
جورج أورويل, 1984
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We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
George Orwell, 1984
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The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.
George Orwell, 1984
Tags: inspirational, life
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If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?
George Orwell, 1984
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April the 4th, 1984.
To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man - greetings!
George Orwell, 1984
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
George Orwell, 1984
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.
George Orwell, 1984
George was right.
They Don’t Want A Nation. FULL STOP
BUMP
(They’ve got the masses logging in with their cellphone 📱📱📱 or scanning their palm-print to BUY food.
Control the masses by controlling the food supply and whether one can BUY and SELL.)
It’s not widespread. Not.....yet.....
(((See how Amazon One simplifies your day,)))
https://youtu.be/xH_SVNVIfzk?si=NQfPij6-xFHTklBm
Certainly not...
“Why do we suck so bad in comparison?”
Because our leaders have been bought or blackmailed off. They are not part of the “we” team.
(They Don’t Want A Nation. FULL STOP)
10 toes - Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream - Daniel Chapter 2
10 regions - 10 kings
The Antichrist, “the little horn” shall subdue three
Daniel 2:41-45
King James Version
41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+2%3A41-45&version=KJV
Daniel 7:8
King James Version
8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%207%3A8&version=KJV
Holy cow
I think that needs its own thread
Commies, socialists and totalitarians are the problem - that’s ‘the mob’. Not capitalists...
Progressivism is based on the delusion that if only the Best and the Brightest had sufficient power they could structure society so as to create the Greatest Good for the Greatest Number.
We play by the rulz
‘The left is very good at what they want because they are given over to a reprobate mind that has not been renewed by God.’
if you really want to get a look at institutions that are ultimate censors of critical thought, think organized religions; all of them...
bump
I think this has really kicked in more recently than 100 years ago. I went to public school in the sixties and seventies in a blue-collar town outside of St. Louis and I got an excellent education. Some of my fellows, of course, didn’t take full advantage of what was offered, but that was more their fault. One of the things explicitly missing then was the weird, time-wasting stuff of today that relentlessly advances the abnormal over the normal. Of course, I had other teachers besides those in school: my parents, my church, even some of my neighbors. I have always been a big reader and used to read the encyclopedia and “The World Almanac.”. I’m approaching 67 and try to learn something new every day. I don’t consider myself exceptional. I just managed to get a good start that encouraged in me the essential human quality of being curious and pursuing that curiosity to knowledge.
Capitalists are logical and subsidiary. They can take thinkers and transparency because that’s where the money comes from. Sold math solid business model. Solid problem solving
Everything else is just subsidy from theme govt or some conglomerate with an agenda
People like to call them capitalists but that’s simply incorrect.
Capitalism is equated with wealth either through greed, theft, grift or capitalism
But capitalism is just capitalism and wealth can be either capitalism or ill-gotten. They are not the same
Thank you.
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