1984 and THT Surveillance Quotes

1984: “Thoughcrime does not…

…entail death, thoughcrime is death”

1984: “had to…

…live […] in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard”

1984: “He thought of…

…the telescreen with it's never-sleeping ear”

1984: “Winston kept…

…his back to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back could be revealing”

THT: “perhaps it was…

…a test to see what I would do, perhaps he was an eye”

THT: “Under…

…his eye”

THT: '“I cannot…

…avoid seeing, now the small tattoo on my ankle. Four digits and an eye, a passport in reverse.”

1984: “It was almost…

…normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children”

THT: “eavesdropping little…

…sneak - child hero was the phrase generally used - had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police”

1984: “systematically…

…turned into ungovernable savages”

THT: “Doubled…

…I walk the street”

THT: “We aren't…

…allowed to go there except in twos. […] The truth is that she is my spy, as I am hers.”

THT: “Covertly…

…we regard each other, sizing up each others bellies: is anyone lucky?”