Vivek's+Quote+Folder

__**Irony**__

"But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated"

"He could never see the face of Goldsetein without a painful mixture of emotions"

"There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on"

"He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones."


 * __Oppression__**

"The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one"


 * __Double Think__**

"War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength"

"A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war."


 * __Power__**

"Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing."

"We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull."

“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”


 * __Memory__**

"Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar."

"Actually he was not used to writing by hand. Apart from very short notes, it was usual to dictate everything into the speakwrite which was of course impossible for his present purpose."

"And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain."

"Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?"


 * __Rebellion__**

"And what he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life. The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime."

"But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire."


 * __Totalitarianism__**

"Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right"

**// "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" //**

"It was no use trying the lift. Even at the best of times it was seldom working..."

“You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him: you must love him”