Surveillance `1984 Quotes

'In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like

a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight'

'Any sound that Winston made, above the level

of a very low whisper, would be picked up'

'There was of course no way of knowing

whether you were being watched at any given moment'

'Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen.

It was safer; though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing'

'Thought crime was not a thing

that could be concealed for ever'

'Another year, two years, and they would be watching her

night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy'

'On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners,

on posters and on the wrapping of a cigarette packet - everywhere'

'Nothing was your own except

the few cubic centimetres inside your skull'

'Never show dismay! Never show resentment!

A single flicker of the eyes could give you away'

'I am that sort of girl

...always yell with the crowd'