Dystopia Quotes

If you want to keep a secret……

…. you must also hide it from yourself

• Surveillance

• identity/induvidualism

The paperweight was the room he was in….

… Julia’s life, and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal

• memory

• restriction

If you are human…

…. that is humanity

• Part 3, referring to Winston’s emaciated body in the mirror after the beatings

• identity/induvidualism

• humanity

DOWN…

…..WITH BIG BROTHER

• Rebellion

• freedom (from surveillance and restriction)

Who controls the past controls the…

…..future. Who controls the present controls the past.

• Totalitarianism

• propaganda

Room 101 is…

… the worst thing in the world

• violence

• power

“You’re a…“

“… traitor/Eurasian spy/Thought Criminal!“

• indoctrination

• surveillance

Its a beautiful thing…

… the destruction of words

• Language

• Destruction of the past/individualism

The room was a pocket…

…. of the world where extinct animals could walk

• the past

• freedom

BIG BROTHER

…IS WATCHING YOU

• surveillance

• propaganda

The real power is not over things…..

…but over man…by making him suffer

• totalitarianism, power

• violence

not rebelling against authority….

….but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog

What can you do against the lunatic….

….who is more intelligent than yourself?

• indoctrination

• power

to die hating them…

…that was freedom

• rebellion

• power

in the face of pain…

…there are no heroes

• violence

• power/control

Waste not, want not…

….I am not wasted. Why do I want?

Caught in the act…

….sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.

Maybe boredom is…

…erotic, when women do it for men

buttered, i lie…

…like a piece of toast

we are all….

….honey

The pen between my fingers is sensuous…

….the power of the words it contains

we are…

…two-legged wombs, sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices

i made that up…

….it didn’t happen that way. Here is what happened.

i refuse to say…

….my

modesty….

is invisibility

what else…

…can i say?

even the names of shops….

….. were too much temptation for us

but what did i have….

…. to trade?

on this day, we can do whatever we want….

…..I revise that: within limits

Mother, you wanted a woman’s culture….

….well now there is one. Be thankful for small mercies.

I would like….

to steal something from this room

it must be hell….

….to be a man like that

these bodies are….

….time-travellers, anachronisms

the night is mine…

….my own time

I would like to be ignorant….

….then I would not know how ignorant I was.

he pushed the picture out of his mind….

it was a false memory

their embrace had been a battle…

….the climax a victory

uncontrollable….

….exclamations of rage

i like to…

….see them kicking

the old man’s memory was….

….nothing but a rubbish heap