Quotes on 1984 Important

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.

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

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.