1984 (Theatrical Adaptation)

How can you say a book has changed the world when the world is still exactly the same?

I’m not mad. There is truth and there are facts. Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. Because it does.

owes

Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein.

The individual is dead, Winston. The Party is immortal.

Sanity is not statistical.

Understand that you will be fighting in the dark. You will always be in the dark. Orders will come and you will obey them and you will never know the specifics of why.

The Brotherhood does not exist in the ordinary sense – nothing holds it together, except an idea which is indestructible. An

idea for, and a dream of,

I had been hoping for an opportunity of talking to you. You take a scholarly interest in Newspeak, I believe?

WINSTON
Hardly scholarly. I’ve never had anything to do with the actual construction of the language.

O’BRIEN
But you write it very elegantly. That is not only my own opinion. I was talking recently to a friend of yours who is certainly an expert. His name has slipped my memory for the moment.

WINSTON turns to look at SYME’s vacant chair.

A pause. They look at each other.

O’BRIEN resettles his spectacles on his nose.

, the impossibility of truly knowing / anything.
HOST
In fact, it requires us to believe two contradictory things simultaneously – and accept both of them. It’s always about more than one thing.

There was no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police watched any particular individual was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time.