If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.
Book 1949
Nineteen Eighty-Four quotes
About the book
In a future Britain renamed Airstrip One, the Party watches every citizen through telescreens and rewrites history to suit itself. Winston Smith, a clerk at the Ministry of Truth whose job is altering old records, starts to keep a secret diary and to question the world around him. Orwell's novel is the classic portrait of total surveillance, propaganda and the abuse of power.
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed — no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'