1984 - quotes

Question 1

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Answer 1

it was a bright and cold day in april, and the clocks were striking thirteen

Question 2

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Answer 2

there was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment

Question 3

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Answer 3

you had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every moment scrutinised

Question 4

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Answer 4

with the development of television… private life came to end

Question 5

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Answer 5

every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police

Question 6

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Answer 6

only the thought police mattered

Question 7

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Answer 7

the instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely

Question 8

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Answer 8

big brother is watching you

Question 9

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Answer 9

perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood

Question 10

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Answer 10

who controls the past controls the future. who controls the present controls the past.

Question 11

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Answer 11

war is peace. freedom is slavery. ignorant is strength

Question 12

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Answer 12

if you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself

Question 13

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Answer 13

but if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought

Question 14

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Answer 14

doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them

Question 15

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Answer 15

until they have become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious

Question 16

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Answer 16

we are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power

Question 17

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Answer 17

the german nazis and the russian communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognise their own motives

Question 18

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Answer 18

power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing

Question 19

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Answer 19

if you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love

Question 20

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Answer 20

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

Question 21

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Answer 21

reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else

Question 22

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Answer 22

freedom is the freedom to say two plus two make four. if that is granted, all else follows

Question 23

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Answer 23

its a beautiful thing, the destruction of words

Question 24

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Answer 24

the choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better

Question 25

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Answer 25

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

Question 26

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Answer 26

if both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-what then

Question 27

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Answer 27

nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull

Question 28

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Answer 28

orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. orthodoxy is unconsciousness

Question 29

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Answer 29

we do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them

Question 30

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Answer 30

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

Question 31

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Answer 31

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

Question 32

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Answer 32

history has stopped. nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right

Question 33

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Answer 33

you do not exist

Question 34

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Answer 34

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 ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink

Question 35

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Answer 35

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.

Question 36

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Answer 36

so long as they (the proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance... to keep them in control was not difficult

Question 37

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Answer 37

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

Question 38

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Answer 38

you're only a rebel from the waist downwards, he told her

Question 39

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Answer 39

you thought i was a good party member. pure in word and deed

Question 40

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Answer 40

but it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. he had won the victory over himself. he loved big brother

Question 41

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Answer 41

the smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. she had become a physical necessity

Question 42

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Answer 42

there will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the party. there will be no love, except the love of big brother. there will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. there will be no art, no literature, no science

Question 43

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Answer 43

if there is hope, it lies in the proles

Question 44

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Answer 44

you will be hollow. we shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves

Question 45

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Answer 45

in the end the party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it

Question 46

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Answer 46

but you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. no emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. it was a blow struck against the party. it was a political act

Question 47

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Answer 47

you must love big brother. it is not enough to obey him: you must love him

Question 48

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Answer 48

do it to julia! not me! julia! i dont care what you do to her! tear her face off, strip her to the bones

Question 49

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Answer 49

all you care about if yourself

Question 50

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Answer 50

a heretical thought... should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent upon words