Flashcards
1984 Quotes
Cards in this deck (8)
- 1Surveillance-Big Brother is watching you
-No way of knowing if you were being watched at any given moment - 2PowerPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing [O’Brien]. 306
- 3Totalitarian control and regimeTwo plus two makes five and you would have to believe it. 92
- 4Love/Sex-The party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort and dirty it. 76
-[Katherine called sex] ‘making a baby’ ‘our duty to the Party’. 77
-There will be no love except the love of the Party 306 - 5Manipulation of past- Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. 40
-Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. 318 - 6Language-We’re cutting language down to the bone. 59
-How could you have a slogan like ‘Freedom is Slavery’ when the concept of freedom has been abolished? 61 - 7Freedom-FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
-As the Party slogan put it: ‘Proles and animals are free.’ 83
-Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. 93 - 8Identity/Rebellion-The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. 78
-[W’s first meeting with J] It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act. 145