1984/ Stasi Quotes Flashcards
People were crazy
with pain and secrets
There are no people
who are whole
Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you,
until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
When I got out of prison,
I was basically no longer human,’ Miriam says.
Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can’t look at her.
Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn’t get back.”
People no longer wanted right or left—
they wanted middle-of-the-road
This was perfect dictator-logic:
we investigate you, therefore you are an enemy
In this country, any kind of printing was forbidden
unless authorised
this man who could turn inhumanity
into humanity
he was redrawing the limits
of the free world
He speaks in
authoritative barks
alone in
the big city
they just want to stop
thinking about the past
The whole area
was lit as bright as day
things remained close,
and hard
Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
If you want to keep a secret
you must also hide it from yourself
We shall meet in the place
where there is no darkness
In the face of pain
there are no heroes
Big Brother is
Watching You
It’s a beautiful thing,
the destruction of words
Reality exists in the human mind,
and nowhere else
Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think.
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness
e do not merely destroy our enemies;
we change them
Nothing was your own except
the few cubic centimetres inside your skull
To die hating them,
that was freedom
There was truth and there was untruth,
and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O’Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O’Brien: You do not exist.”
If you kept the small rules,
you could break the big ones
The consequences of every act
are included in the act itself
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,
from a dead man - greetings!”
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence
and as difficult to attain
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth
that nobody would ever hear
