Dystopian thematic quotes

Quotes on Control - Totalitarian regime

“Nothing was yours except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull'' - 1984

"Gilead is within you" - 1984

Quotes on Hierarchy - Totalitarian regime

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they will never become conscious" - 1984

“Better never means for everyone. It always means worse, for some.”

Quotes on Children as a resource - Totalitarian regime

“[children ] were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages”

“Give me children, or else I die”

Quotes on Language as a restriction - Language

"The whole idea of Newspeak was to narrow the range of thought " - 1984

“The Bible is kept locked up... no one else is supposed to read it.” - HT

Quotes on ritual greeting - Language

“Plus plus good.” - 1984

“Blessed be the fruit” - HT

Quotes on Rebellion - Language

“Even with nothing written in it, it was a compromising possession” - 1984

“Zygote” - HT

Quotes on Omnipresent - Survelliance

“Big Brother is watching you!” - 1984

“The eyes of God run all over earth” - HT

Quotes on Interpersonal - Survelliance

"Ear trumpets for listening through key-holes!" - 1984

“She is my spy, and I am hers.” - HT

Quotes on Internalized - Survelliance

''It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander...the smallest thing could give you away'' - 1984

“Thinking can hurt your chances, and I intend to last.” - HT

Quotes on Controlled violence - Violence

“It was impossible to avoid joining in” - 2 min hate

“It’s difficult to restrain yourself.”   - Salvagings

Quotes on Fear - Violence

“Want to see the hanging, want to see the hanging” – Little girl

“It’s the bags over their heads that are the worst.”

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"Bodies hanging by their necks ... made into examples"

Quotes on Punishment - Violence

“Room 101.”

“The cattle prods were for the Aunts.”

Quotes on Idea of purity - Gender

“girls are always supposed to be so pure” – Winston about Julia

“There are only women who are fruitful and women who are barren."- Offred (double standards

Quotes on Removal of sexuality - Gender

“simply sex gone sour"

Their heads are uncovered and their hair too is exposed, in all its darkness and sexuality. 

Quotes on the blame of women - Gender

“it was always women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party”

“Her fault, her fault, her fault, we chant in unison.”