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Here are  just some examples of the most famous quotations from the author. I have posted here, the ones I consider the best examples of 1984; however I have attached some other interesting links to other pages where you can find plenty of quotations from this and other books. Some of them are written in Spanish and the rest in English:

• “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

• “”War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

• “”Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

• “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

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

• “”Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

• “”We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”

• “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

• “”Big Brother is Watching You.

• “”It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

• “The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

• “”But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

• “”Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”

• “Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

• “Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

• “”You are a slow learner, Winston.”
  “How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.”
  “Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

• “”The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

• “”In the face of pain there are no heroes.””Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

MORE QUOTATIONS FROM THE AUTHOR

http://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_orwell.html

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3706.George_Orwell

http://www.memorablequotations.com/orwell.htm

http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/quotations/quotes/george_orwell_1984.html

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