1984/ Stasi Quotes

Question 1

People were crazy

Answer 1

with pain and secrets

Question 2

There are no people

Answer 2

who are whole

Question 3

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you,

Answer 3

until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?

Question 4

When I got out of prison,

Answer 4

I was basically no longer human,’ Miriam says.

Question 5

Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can’t look at her.

Answer 5

Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn’t get back.”

Question 6

People no longer wanted right or left—

Answer 6

they wanted middle-of-the-road

Question 7

This was perfect dictator-logic:

Answer 7

we investigate you, therefore you are an enemy

Question 8

In this country, any kind of printing was forbidden

Answer 8

unless authorised

Question 9

this man who could turn inhumanity

Answer 9

into humanity

Question 10

he was redrawing the limits

Answer 10

of the free world

Question 11

He speaks in

Answer 11

authoritative barks

Question 12

alone in

Answer 12

the big city

Question 13

they just want to stop

Answer 13

thinking about the past

Question 14

The whole area

Answer 14

was lit as bright as day

Question 15

things remained close,

Answer 15

and hard

Question 16

Who controls the past controls the future.

Answer 16

Who controls the present controls the past.

Question 17

War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Answer 17

Ignorance is strength.”

Question 18

If you want to keep a secret

Answer 18

you must also hide it from yourself

Question 19

We shall meet in the place

Answer 19

where there is no darkness

Question 20

In the face of pain

Answer 20

there are no heroes

Question 21

Big Brother is

Answer 21

Watching You

Question 22

It’s a beautiful thing,

Answer 22

the destruction of words

Question 23

Reality exists in the human mind,

Answer 23

and nowhere else

Question 24

Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think.

Answer 24

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness

Question 25

e do not merely destroy our enemies;

Answer 25

we change them

Question 26

Nothing was your own except

Answer 26

the few cubic centimetres inside your skull

Question 27

To die hating them,

Answer 27

that was freedom

Question 28

There was truth and there was untruth,

Answer 28

and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Question 29

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?

O’Brien: Of course he exists.

Answer 29

Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?

O’Brien: You do not exist.”

Question 30

If you kept the small rules,

Answer 30

you could break the big ones

Question 31

The consequences of every act

Answer 31

are included in the act itself

Question 32

To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police,

Answer 32

from a dead man - greetings!”

Question 33

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence

Answer 33

and as difficult to attain

Question 34

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth

Answer 34

that nobody would ever hear