1984 - Lies Quotes

Question 1

It was not true, for example,

Answer 1

as was claimed in the Party history textbooks, that the Party had invented aeroplanes. He remembered aeroplanes since his earliest childhood. But he could prove nothing

Question 2

Books…

Answer 2

were recalled and re-written again and again, and were invariably re-issued without any admission that any alteration had been made

Question 3

Statistics were just as much a fantasy

Answer 3

in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head

Question 4

The only evidence

Answer 4

to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones

Question 5

It consisted in

Answer 5

falsifying a series of production reports of two years ago

Question 6

Often she was ready to accept the official mythology,

Answer 6

simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to her. She believed, for instance, having learnt it in school, that the Party had invented aeroplanes

Question 7

Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution

Answer 7

and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been re-written, every picture had been re-painted, every statue and street and building has been re-named, every date has been altered