1984/ Stasi Quotes Flashcards

(34 cards)

1
Q

People were crazy

A

with pain and secrets

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

There are no people

A

who are whole

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you,

A

until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

When I got out of prison,

A

I was basically no longer human,’ Miriam says.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can’t look at her.

A

Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn’t get back.”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

People no longer wanted right or left—

A

they wanted middle-of-the-road

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

This was perfect dictator-logic:

A

we investigate you, therefore you are an enemy

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

In this country, any kind of printing was forbidden

A

unless authorised

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

this man who could turn inhumanity

A

into humanity

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

he was redrawing the limits

A

of the free world

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

He speaks in

A

authoritative barks

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

alone in

A

the big city

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

they just want to stop

A

thinking about the past

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

The whole area

A

was lit as bright as day

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

things remained close,

A

and hard

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Who controls the past controls the future.

A

Who controls the present controls the past.

17
Q

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

A

Ignorance is strength.”

18
Q

If you want to keep a secret

A

you must also hide it from yourself

19
Q

We shall meet in the place

A

where there is no darkness

20
Q

In the face of pain

A

there are no heroes

21
Q

Big Brother is

22
Q

It’s a beautiful thing,

A

the destruction of words

23
Q

Reality exists in the human mind,

A

and nowhere else

24
Q

Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think.

A

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness

25
e do not merely destroy our enemies;
we change them
26
Nothing was your own except
the few cubic centimetres inside your skull
27
To die hating them,
that was freedom
28
There was truth and there was untruth,
and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
29
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.”
30
If you kept the small rules,
you could break the big ones
31
The consequences of every act
are included in the act itself
32
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!” 
33
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence
and as difficult to attain
34
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth
that nobody would ever hear