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Party Quotes by George Orwell
- To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out,…
- The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the same.
- The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation…
- The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of…
- The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he…
- Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not…
- Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the…
- Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed,…
- The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.
- But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise…
- In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to…
- And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.…
- Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could…
- Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only…
- It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.…
- But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their…
- Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should…
- In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the…
- Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same…
- History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
- Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist…
- The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and…
More Party Quotes
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their… — John Avlon
- In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity. — Lauren Bacall
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet
- The Republican Party is extremely pro-women. — Michele Bachmann
- Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already. — Michele Bachmann
- The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda. — Michele Bachmann
- I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We… — Michele Bachmann
- The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once… — Michele Bachmann
- The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that… — Lord Acton