Цитаты из книги «1984»

The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

The search for new weapons continues at all times, and is one of the very few remaining activities in which the inventive mind can find any outlet.

Party members are expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary for them to be ignorant fanatics whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred and adulation.

It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups near the brink of hardship, because scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and magnifies the distinction between groups.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour.

weakness.The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world.

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which WEALTH, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while POWER remained in the hands of a small privileged caste.

They could not alter your feelings: for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to.

If you can FEEL that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.”

What you say or do doesn’t matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal.”