Emine+1984+quotes

1. “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were sriking thirteen” pg 1 (Totalitarianism, suppression, mind control, control of information and history) 2. “Tha hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats. At the one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall” pg 1 (Language as mind control, psychological manipulation, dangers of totalitarianism, institutional) 3. “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (Language as mind control, psychological manipulation, control 4. “ WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” pg 18 (language as mind control, psychological manipulation, control of information and history) 5. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past” -control of information and history 6. “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four all else follows”- control of information and history, psychological manipulation, physical control 7. “For after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exists only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable -what then?”- psychological manipulation, control of information and history 8. victory gin “colourless liquid with a plain white label marked VICTORY GIN” 9.”Its smooth creamy paper, a little yelowed by age” 10. “Suddenly he began writting in sheer panic, only imperfectly aware of what he was setting down. His small but childish writting straggled up and down the page...” pg 10 11.“He did not know what had made him pour out this stream of rubbish. But the curious thing was that while he was doing so a totally different memory had clarified itself in his mind...” pg 11 12. “Goldestein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party- an attack so exaggerated that and perverse that a child should see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken by it” pg 14 13. “He disliked nearly all women, especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women above all the young ones who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party.” Pg 12 14. “He felt deeply drawn to him, and not solely because he was intrigued by the contrast between O’Brien’s urbane manner and his prizefighter’s physique. Much more it was because of a secretly-held belief..” pg 13 15. “A day never passed when spies and saboteurs acting under his directions were not unmasked by the Thought Police.” Pg 15 16. “A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group...”pg16 17. “He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, agressive symbol of chastisy.” Pg 17 18. “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” Pg 20 19. “his mother!s memory tore at his heart because she had died loving him, when he was too young and selfish to love her in return, and because somehow, he did not remember how, she had sacrificed herself to a conception of loyalty that was private and unalterable.” Pg 32