1984 Quotes with Page Numbers

Big Brother is watching you (Page 3)

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength (Page 17)

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death (Page 27)

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious (Page 68)

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing (Page 77)

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four (Page 81)

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else (Page 83)

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them (Page 105)

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view (Page 167)

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself (Page 239)

Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness (Page 250)

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it (Page 293)

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull (Page 324)

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed (Page 359)

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it (Page 375)

In the face of pain there are no heroes (Page 384)

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them (Page 390)

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’ (Page 414)

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better (Page 421)

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power (Page 428)

Sanity is not statistical (Page 457)

The object of power is power (Page 459)

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them (Page 469)

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed (Page 474)

In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it (Page 497)

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect (Page 503)

Sanity is not statistical. It is a striving after the unattainable (Page 506)

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it (Page 518)

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four (Page 520)

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power (Page 522)

No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it (Page 523)

It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words (Page 528)

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought (Page 530)

Orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness (Page 532)

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing (Page 536)

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better (Page 543)

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever (Page 585)

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness (Page 649)

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already (Page 6)

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one (Page 18)

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious (Page 32)

We are the dead (Page 35)

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself (Page 47)

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them (Page 53)

Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason (Page 70)

But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? (Page 83)

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? (Page 88)

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death (Page 92)

The Party does not seek power for its own sake. Its primary goal is to maintain its own power (Page 185)

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad (Page 223)