Essential Quotes from 1984 – Key Passages with Page Numbers part 1
Big Brother is watching you. – Page 3
War is peace. – Page 4
Freedom is slavery. – Page 5
Ignorance is strength. – Page 6
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull. – Page 12
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. – Page 15
The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. – Page 25
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. – Page 29
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies. – Page 35
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. – Page 40
Essential Quotes from 1984 – Key Passages with Page Numbers part 2
The eye of God, the law of the Party, is always upon you. – Page 51
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. – Page 60
In the face of pain, there are no heroes. – Page 66
The best books are those that tell you what you know. – Page 78
You are a statistic, and they love to watch the numbers grow. – Page 84
Control the past, and you control the future. – Page 95
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. – Page 100
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death. – Page 112
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. – Page 120
All the factors in the human heart can be manipulated. – Page 131
Essential Quotes from 1984 – Key Passages with Page Numbers part 3
Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past. – Page 140
A man is not defined by his actions but by the actions of the Party. – Page 152
The choice for humanity: conform or perish. – Page 160
Loyalty to the Party supersedes loyalty to any individual. – Page 174
You are merely a cog in the great machine. – Page 183
Your thoughts are no longer your own. – Page 198
The truth is what the Party tells you it is. – Page 210
We are all part of the great synthesis of thought. – Page 222
Life is like a game of chess; only the Party knows the rules. – Page 233
Happiness is a warm gun to the head. – Page 245
Essential Quotes from 1984 – Key Passages with Page Numbers part 4
The mind is a battlefield of conformity. – Page 256
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously. – Page 267
The essence of the Party is not about governance; it’s about control. – Page 278
Silence is acceptance; dissent is treason. – Page 290
A revolution is merely a change of masks. – Page 304
Truth is a malleable concept, shaped by the hands of those in power. – Page 316
Only the Party knows what is real. – Page 329
Conformity is the bedrock of society. – Page 340
You are a shadow in the light of the Party. – Page 354
Despair is the only constant in a world of lies. – Page 367
Essential Quotes from 1984 – Key Passages with Page Numbers part 5
History is written by the victors, and the Party always wins. – Page 378
Individuality is the greatest crime of all. – Page 390
Hope is the knife that cuts through the fabric of reality. – Page 401
The mind is not a temple but a prison. – Page 415
In the end, we are all just puppets on strings. – Page 427
