Fahrenheit 415 Quotes ( Control / Government )

Narrator/Guy, kerosene being a daily smell

“Kerosene…. is nothing but perfume to me”

Clarisse, uncle

“My uncle was arrested another time - did I tell you? - for being a pedestrian”

Narrator, smile never going away

“That smile, it never went away, as long as he remembered”

Clarisse, everyone’s the same

“They all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.”

Beatty, government controls society

“Any man’s insane who thinks he can fool the government and us.”

Narrator, montag knowing mildred

“And suddenly she was so strange he couldn't believe he knew her at all”

Narrator, guy not crying if mildred died

“Then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry.”

Mrs Phelps, men dying

“ I’ve never known any dead man killed in war. Killed jumping off buildings, yes like gloria's husband last week, but from wars? No”

Narrator, government do anything to cover up

“And today it turns out, it’s very usable indeed. It saves face”

Granger/montag

“what did the others give to each other?

Nothingness”

Narrator, Mildred leaning into walls to die

“Leaning into the wall as if all of the hunger of looking would find the secret of her sleepless unease there.”

Mrs Phelps, having kids

“No one in his right mind, the Good Lord knows, would have children!"

Granger, no significance / books

“We’re nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.”

Granger, not important

“You’re not important. You’re not anything.”

Granger, eyes with wonder

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds."

Faber, people chose reading books

"Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord."