1984 Quotes Flashcards
Propaganda
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Impossible to avoid joining in
Want to see the hanging - little savages
Rectify (Winston’s job)
Prevent men and women from forming loyalties
Beneath suspicion
A mouth that uttered, a hand that signed whatever was demanded
What the party holds to be truth, is truth
Squeeze you empty… fill you with ourselves
He loved big Brother
HT
ravenous for news
They show us only victories
State-Sanctioned Torture
Want to see the hanging
Great purges
Hate Week - Two Minute Hate
Everybody always confesses
Boot stamping on a human face - for ever
Do it to Julia - He had meant it
HT
Scriptural precedent
Tear, gouge, rend
Oppression
War is Peace
Really frightening one (min of love)
Victory Gin
Vaporised
Thoughtcrime
Great purges
If there is hope
I understand how: I do not understand why
Real sugar… coffee
Rocket bombs
Worship… towards O’Brien
Party prisoners
A mouth that uttered, a hand that signed
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake
Unless he is suffering
Boot stamping on a human face - for ever
Without raising the standard of living
Power is not a means, it is an end
Until they become conscious they will never rebel
HT
Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last
I enjoy the power… passive but there
Ideology
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
Airstrip One
WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Thoughtcrime
Prevent men and women from forming loyalties
Beneath suspicion
Worship… towards O’Brien
Without raising the standard of living
Perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself
Party holds to be truth, is truth
Seeks power entirely for its own sake
Unless he is suffering
Boot stamping on a human face - for ever
Patriarchal Authority
Only a rebel from the waist down
Disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones
We’re not dead yet
HT
colour of blood, which defines us
I am a national resource
Men at the top have always had mistresses
He didn’t mind this I thought
For this one I’d wear pink feathers
Demonisation
Foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals
Goldstein, the Enemy of the People (he is definitely Trotsky)
Proles were natural inferiors
Micro Management of Behaviour
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
Every movement scrutinised
Rectify
Beneath suspicion
We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them
Fill you with ourselves
You are the last man
Regimes Fear/ Hatred of Love/ Sexuality
Hated nearly all women
Prevent men and women from forming loyalties
It was a political act
He knew that he was starving the other two
Do it to Julia… he had meant it
We shall abolished the orgasm
I’m going to be a woman, not a party comrade
HT
fucking
I want to be valued
Hatred… jealous (between offered and Serena)
Austerity
Victory gin… sickly, oily smell
Real sugar… coffee… tea
Rocket bombs
Use up the produce… without raising the standard of living
Concentration of property in far fewer hands than before
Unless he is suffering
Social Stratification
Proles and animals are free
Beneath suspicion
Real sugar… coffee… tea
Without raising the standard of living
Concentration of property in far fewer hands than before
Not concerned with perpetuating its blood but perpetuating itself
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake
HT
Better never means better for everyone, it always means worse for some
They like to see you all painted up… power trip
Surveillance
Telescreen
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
Every movement scrutinised
I’m proud of her
For seven years the Thought Police had watched him
HT
Under His Eye
Delusions of Utopia
Usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled
HT
Freedom to and freedom from
Manipulation of Language
To narrow the range of thought
Beautiful thing, the destruction of words
HT
Under His Eye
Her fault, her fault, her fault
Hope and Opposition
If there was hope, it lay in the proles
You are the last man
Until they become conscious they will never rebel
HT
I admire my mother in some ways
Moria was our fantasy
Mayday
I want heroism from her
It’s mayday
