Цитаты из книги «1984. Книга для чтения на английском языке»

They could only become dangerous if the advance of industrial technique made it necessary to educate them more highly; but, since military and commercial rivalry are no longer important, the level of popular education is actually declining. What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect.

one could infer, if one did not know it already, the general structure of Oceanic society.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms – one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.

For the first time the magnitude of what he had undertaken came home to him

The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty.

. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment

Winston had nothing to do with the running of the Lottery, which was managed by the Ministry of Plenty, but he was aware (indeed everyone in the Party was aware) that the prizes were largely imaginary. Only small sums were actually paid out, the winners of the big prizes being non-existent persons.

There was a little pile of plaster lying on the pavement ahead of him, and in the middle of it he could see a bright red streak.