George Orwell 1984 quotes

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‘War is ____, Freedom is ______, Ignorance is ______’

Peace, slavery, strength

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2

In relation to the two minute hate:
‘It was ______ to avoid joining in’

‘Turning one even against one’s will into a ______, screaming ______’

Impossible, grimacing, lunatic

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3

‘Your one-time _______ was denied and then forgotten’

‘You were ______, annihilated: ______ was the usual word’

Existence, abolished, vapourised

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4

Freedom is the freedom to say that _________. If that is granted, then all else follows

two plus two makes four

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5

All history is _______, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as necessary.

Palimpsest

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6

The party told you to reject the ___________. It was their final, __________.

evidence of your eyes and ears, most essential command

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7

Down with ____________

Big Brother

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8

____________ is watching you

Big brother

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9

Obrien: "'We are the priests of _____,' he said. 'God is ______'".

power

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10

"To ______, to ______, even with a split second left - to ______ was the only hope".

think

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11

"Who ______ the past,” ran the Party slogan “controls the _______: who control the present controls the _____".

Controls, future, past

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12

If there is _____ it lies in the ______

hope, proles

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13

Thoughtcrime does not entail _____: thoughtcrime is ____.

death

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14

Nothing was _____ ______ except the few cubic centimetres inside your _____

your own, skull

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15

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to _______ ____ ______ __ _______?..”

narrow the range of thought

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16

They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a _____ shaking off _____

horse, flies

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17

Obrien ‘is not a _______, he believes every word he says’

hypocrite

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18

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a _______ stamping on a _______—forever.

boot, human face

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19

"We shall meet in the place where there is no _______."

darkness

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20

"The choice for mankind lies between _______ and _______ and for the great bulk of mankind, _______ is better."

freedom, happiness, happiness

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21

"The object of _______ is _______."

power, power

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22

"_______ + _______ = 5."

2, 2

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23

"Until they become _______, they will never ________, and until after they have ________, they cannot become _______."

conscious, rebel, rebelled, conscious

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24

"In the end the Party would announce that _______ and you would have to believe it."

two and two made five

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25

"Reality exists…only in the ______ of the party, which is collective and immortal."

mind

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26

"The Revolution will be complete when the language is _______."

perfect

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27

"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new _______ of your own choosing."

shapes

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28

"We are not interested in the good of _______; we are interested solely in _______."

others, power

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29

"We do not merely destroy our enemies; we _______ them."

change

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30

"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of _______ it."

relinquishing

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31

"Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still _______."

privacy, love, and friendship

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32

"The past was erased, the _______ was forgotten, the lie became the _______."

erasure, truth

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33

“To die hating them, that was _______."

freedom

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34

“Power is not a ______, it is an _____”

means, end

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35

Nothing ______ except an endless present in which the Party is always _____.

exists, right

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36

How can I _____ but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.

help

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37

In the face of pain there are no ______

heroes

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38

“In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of ______ and ignorance”

Poverty

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39

Julia is a ‘rebel from the _____ downwards’

waist

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40

the prole woman has "strong arms, a warm ______, and a fertile ____" but "no ____"

heart, belly, mind

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41

Winston’s mother is "an unusual woman, still less an _____ on”

intelligent

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