George Orwell, 1984 Quotes

That is her style of beauty.

She's beautiful, ' he murmured.'She's a metre across the hips, easily, ' said Julia.'That is her style of beauty, ' said Winston.

If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.

It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.

Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

Sooner
 or 
later 
it 
would 
happen: 
strength 
would 
change
 into 
consciousness.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.

Inequality was the price of civilization.

It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain

The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed.

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.