Quote Bank Flashcards
(51 cards)
Aim of war
“The primary aim of modern warfare is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.”
Controlled insanity
“If the High are to keep their places permanently then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.”
Aim of the party
The aim of the party is for “human equality to be for ever averted.”
Death = freedom
“To die hating them, that was freedom.”
Tv channel
“The black channel”
Sm
“Smeared”
Identity card
“The demonstrators, in shock, obediently pulled their cards from their wallets.”
Fake story
“‘You people want an underground escape organization? Well, I’ll give you one then.’ Fleischer had won.”
Why does the party seek power
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. The object of power is power.”
Inside forever
“‘They can’t get inside you,’ she had said. But they could get inside you. ‘What happens to you here is forever,’”
Funder’s hate
Herr Bock. “Here he is once more getting the trust of his people and selling them cheap.”
Indifference
“When once you were in the grip of the Party, what you did or refrained from doing, made no difference. Whatever happened you vanished”
Crimestop
“Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.”
Selfishness
“You want it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself.”
Victory of love
“He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
Paperweight
“The inexhaustibly interesting thing was not the fragment of coral but the interior of the glass itself.”
Surveillance state
“The German media called East Germany ‘the most perfected surveillance state of all time’.”
Yellow
“There’s order everywhere else in German life even the handicapped are labeled with yellow (yellow!) armbands.”
Inconstancy
“The Stasi subjected him to disciplinary proceedings on account of ‘inconstancy’, and in their files attributed the remarriage to ‘the repeated negative influence of Frau Koch’.”
Party slogans
“War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength.”
Ultimate subtlety
“That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed.”
Palimpsest,
“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.”
2+2=5
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. And what was terrifying was that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four?”
Huge force
“It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you persuading you to deny the evidence of your senses.”
