1984 Major Quotes

Part 1: Chapter 1
"BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU"

Part 1: Chapter 1
"DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER"

Part 1: Chapter 1
"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in."

The ministry of Truth, which concerned himself with news, entertainment, education and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs

Part 1: Chapter 1
"WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"

Part 1: Chapters 2-7
"If all records tell the same tale - then the lie passed into history and became truth"

Part 1: Chapters 2-7
"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past"

Part 1: Chapters 2-7
"Doubleplusungood"

Part 1: Chapters 2-7
"If there is hope ... it lies in the Proles

Part 1: Chapters 2-7
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted all else follows"

Part 2: Chapters 1 - 7
"Not merely the love of one person, but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated dire: that was the force that would tear the Party to pieces."

Part 2: Chapters 1 - 7
"She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse. 'We are the dead' he said"

Part 2: Chapters 1 - 7
"You're only a rebel from the waist downwards" - Winston

Part 2: Chapters 1 - 7
"It's the one thing they can't do. They can make you say anything - anything - but they can't make you believe it. They can'r get inside you"

Part 2: Chapters 8 - 10
"You will work for while, you will be caught, you will confess, and the then you will die ... There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen our own lifetime. We are the dead"

Part 2: Chapters 8 - 10
"everywhere stood the same slid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work ad childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing"

Part 2: Chapters 8 - 10
"All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers"

Part 2: Chapters 8 - 10
"Sanity is not statistical"

Part 3: Chapters 1 - 3
"It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it."

Part 3: Chapters 1 - 3
"There was nothing left in them except sorrow for what they had done, and love of Big Brother. It was touching to see how they loved him.. They begged to be shot quickly, so that they could die while their minds were still clean."

Part 3: Chapters 1 - 3
"We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull"

Part 3: Chapters 1 - 3
"The Command of the old despotisms was THOU SHALT NOT. The command of the totalitarians was THOU SHALT. Out command is THOU ART"

Part 3: Chapters 4 - 6
"It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude."

Part 3: Chapters 4 - 6
"To did hating them, that was freedom"

Part 3: Chapters 4 - 6
"You asked me once," said O'Brien, "What was in room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world"

Part 3: Chapters 4 - 6
"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off! Strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!

Part 3: Chapters 4 - 6
"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had one the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.