ts eliot quotes

ts eliot quotes

Who controls

Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past

History has

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

Every record

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered

If all

If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed - if all records told the same tale - then the lie passed into history and became truth

Big Brother

Big Brother is watching you

Nothing was

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull

Even a

Even a back can be revealing

You had

You had to live in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinised

Two

Two minutes hate

Goldstein

Goldstein … long ago had been one of the leading figures of the Party … and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death

His secret

His secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector

The sight

The sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically. He was an object of hatred more constant than either Eurasia or Eastasia

We’re destroying

We’re destroying words, we’re cutting the language down to the bone

In the

In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, as there will be no words in which to express it

War is

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

Two plus

Two plus two equals five