Цитаты из книги «1984»

There are only four ways in which a ruling group can lose power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so badly that the masses revolt, or it allows the Middle group to emerge, or it loses its own confidence and willingness to govern.

In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Were there always these vistas of rotting nineteenth-century houses?

towered above the grimy landscape.

You had to live in the assumption that every sound you made was heard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

How often the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork.

The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.

alternately covering and uncovering

except the posters that were plastered everywhere.