The 10 Best 1984 Quotes That You Should Know

It’s hard to choose the best 1984 quotes, because there are far too many applicable to today. I absolutely love this book. It’s easily one of my all-time dystopian favorites. So it was well worth the time to analyze them all. George Orwell was a master with linguistics.

Not only that, but it seems like he gave an instruction manual to the elites to follow on how to subvert a country, because many of the things he fictionally stated the ministries did, our own politicians also do.

So every once in a while I have to pick the book back up again.

Because of that, I recently re-read 1984 by George Orwell. And I picked up a few quotes along the way that I have always thought were truly powerful messages.

Without further ado:

here is the Top Ten Best 1984 Quotes

• 1. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.
• 2. He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
• 3. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power – pure power.
• 4. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
• 5. We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
• 6. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
• 7. Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
• 8. The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
• 9. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
• 10. Sanity is not statistical.

And why not, here’s one more

• 11. Big Brother is watching you

If you haven’t read it yet, you absolutely should. It’s an excellent novel.

Do you think I missed any? What’s your favorite 1984 quote?