"1984" quotes I think about a lot

𖤐𝔊𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔱𝔣𝔞𝔠𝔢𖤐

(If you can’t tell, I’m on a weird George Orwell hyperfixation. It’s going to be Lord of the Flies and Fahrenheit 451 later.)

“Big Brother is Watching You.”

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. ”

“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”