How often or on what system the Thought police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork Page 5
Even a back can be revealing Page 5
He tried to squeeze out a memory that should tell him whether London was always like this. Page 5
For some reason, the telescreen in the living room was in an unusual position. page 7
Its smooth creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink pencil page 8
He disliked nearly all women especially young pretty ones 12
Your one-time existence was denied then forgotten, You were abolished, annihilated: vapourised 21
It was Mrs Pasrons, the wife 22
How could you make an appeal to the future when not a trace of you not even an anonymous scribbled word on a piece of paper physically survive 29
41-42-43-44-45 good quotes about editing history and the destruction of “untrue ” events. This shows control.
It was, therefore, necessary to rewrite the paragraph of Big Brother speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened. 41
Winstons job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones
Day by Day minute by minute the past was brought up to date 42
You didn’t have friends anymore, you had comrades. 51
I’ve been using the same one for weeks he added untruthfully 52
We’re destroying words scores of them, hundreds of them a day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone. 54
Dont you see the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought. 55
Until they have been conscious they ill never rebel and until they have rebelled they cannot become conscious 74
Not a thought could be proved or disproved 77
And when memory failed and written records were falsified when that happened the claim of the party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted because there did not exist and could never exist any standard against which it could be tested 97
The rocket bombs that fell on London Daily were probably fired from the government of Oceania itself just to keep people frightened. This was an idea that had literary never occurred to him.
Orthodoxy is not thinking Orthodoxy is not needing to think.Orthodoxy is unconscious
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.