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1984 Doublethink Quotes

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

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

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

Sanity is not statistical.

The aim of the High is to remain where they are.

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.

We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.

The only thing needed is to believe it’s possible.

Ignorance is bliss, but knowledge is power.

History is written by the winners.

Words are the perfect tool for shaping reality.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

1984 Doublethink Quotes part 2

War is a way of controlling the past.

Who controls the present controls the past.

The thought police would get them just the same.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

We are all the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, individually worthless, but collectively powerful.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.

The party seeks power entirely for its own sake.

Orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think.

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?

You cannot love Big Brother. You can only obey him.

Power is tearing human minds apart and putting them together again.

Reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind.

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

Until they become conscious, they will never rebel.

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

Reality control, they called it.

All history was a palimpsest.

Don’t you ever, ever try to deceive us again.

Sanity is not statistical. Sanity is anathema to the Party.

The lack of basic necessities can be a powerful weapon of control.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Nothing exists except through human consciousness.

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed.

Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.

He loved Big Brother.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

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