Thoughtcrime 1984 Quotes & Sayings

Willie appeared completely calm about the news of Mother. She always said she could make tea in a tornado. — Ruta Sepetys

I think when we make choices - for
each choice is individual of the choices we have made before - we must examine not
only our reasons for making them but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions. — Cassandra Clare

This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation. — Guy Debord

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber. — Michael Mullen

The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system
whether political, religious or economic
that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling. Just as ecologists define ecosystems by the presence of certain "indicator species" of plants and birds, torture is an indicator species of a regime that is engaged in a deeply anti-democratic project, even if that regime happens to have come to power through elections. — Naomi Klein

I think the thing about what I want to achieve for the label is it to really be a home for artists who are already developed, who already have a great sense of their artistry or their imaging, who don't really feel or want that marketing push. — Solange Knowles

Blew it up his nose. That woman should have cards printed: 'Dr. Evan Wilson, Imaginative Medicine a Specialty. — Janet Kagan

Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion. — Jerry Bridges

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both. — Eric Maisel

It was entirely possible that one song could destroy your life. Yes, musical doom could fall on a lone human form and crush it like a bug. The song, that song, was sent from somewhere else to find you, to pick the scab of your whole existence. The song was your personal shitty fate, manifest as a throb of pop floating out of radios everywhere. — Jonathan Lethem

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable. — Storm Jameson

Men play the game; women know the score. — Roger Woddis

The disobedient child is continuously condemned. The obedient child is, on the other hand, continuously praised. But have you heard of any obedient child having become world-famous in any dimension of creativity? Have you heard of any obedient child who has attained the Nobel prize for anything - literature, peace, science? The obedient child becomes just the common crowd. All that is added to existence is added by the disobedient. — Rajneesh

Are you really speechless or has the vodka finally impaired your ability to function like a normal human? — Heidi McLaughlin

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. — George Orwell

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them. — Carlo Goldoni