Quotes About Rebellion

the people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens

Revolutionary' discipline depends on political consciousness – on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed.

This was not illegal, (nothing was illegal since there were no longer laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death...

He wondered vaguely how many others like here there might be in the younger generation, people who had grown up in the world of the Revolution, knowing nothing else, accepting the Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog.

for, after all, we have nothing to lose but our aitches.

The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in.

Any kind of organized revolt against the party, which was bound to be a failure, struck her as stupid. The clever thing to do was to break the rules and stay alive all the same.

You wanted a good time; they, meaning the Party, wanted to stop you having it; you broke the rules as best you could.

We are the dead,' he said. 'We are the dead,' echoed Julia dutifully. 'You are the dead,' said an iron voice behind them.

The most gifted of [the Proletariate], who might possibly become a nuclei of discontent, are simply marked down by the Thought Police and eliminated.

The essential point of Nineteen Eighty-Four is just this, the danger of the ultimate and absolute power which mind can develop when it frees itself from conditions, from the bondage of things and history.

Thoughtcrime, they called it.

En tiempos de engaño universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un acto revolucionario".

En una época de engaño universal, decir la verdad es un acto revolucionario.»

Quite likely he would be in the cellars of the Ministry of Love within three days, but a cigarette end must not be wasted.

One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people. One day he will disappear. It is written in his face.

The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same.

They would have blown his brain to pieces before they could reclaim it. The heretical thought would be unpunished, unrepented, out of their reach for ever. They would have blown a hole in their own perfection. To die hating them, that was freedom.

Hasta que no tengan consciencia de su fuerza, no se rebelarán, y hasta después de haberse rebelado, no serán conscientes. Éste es el problema.

Pân? nu devin comÈ™tienÈ›i, nu se vor r?zvr?ti È™i pân? nu se r?zvr?tesc, nu pot deveni conÈ™tienÈ›i" - 1984

Morir odiándolos [al Partido], ésa era la libertad.

Kochany, nie obchodzÄ… mnie nastÄ™pne pokolenia! Mnie chodzi o nas dwoje! - JesteÅ› buntownikiem tylko od pasa w dóÅ' - stwierdziÅ'

On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters, and on the wrapping of a cigarette packet - everywhere. Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed - no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.

We are the dead.