Politics Quotes

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

"You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices."

"I'm thinking of having her transferred to one of the Iceland Conditioning Centres."

"The World State has kept the lower-caste people happy by making them love their servitude."

"The proles are human beings, but they are not like you and me."

"The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred."

"The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same."

"Family love is destructive to social stability."

"I have told you already. The Party is not concerned with overt acts. It is not even concerned with crime. It is concerned solely with thought."

"He loved Big Brother."

"The Brotherhood does not exist. The Brotherhood is everywhere. Believe in the Brotherhood."

"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."

"The existence of the Party is permanent. All else is temporary."

"The proles are the only class with a chance of overthrowing the Party."

"I do not remember when I gave up the idea that power could be overthrown from within."

"The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality."

"Do you see that children nowadays are taught to report their parents to the Thought Police?"

"You're a fascist, aren't you?"

"In the end we will make thoughtcrime impossible because there will be no words."

"The Party forces its members to be stupider than they are."

"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."

"You are a thought-criminal, Winston. You will be cured."

"Winston loved Big Brother."

"The world is stable now. People are happy; they get what they want."

"The Party is not interested in the overt acts: it is not interested in the manifesto, but in the thought."

"It never occurred to me to question the military intelligence that assured us the enemy was still down there."

"What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries."

"The Party would prefer that we hate Goldstein more than we love Big Brother."

"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."

"The Party is not concerned with overt acts. The thought is all we care about."