"Time Out of Joint" Quotes

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 of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting—three hundred million people all with the same face.

I can't go on acting like a human being; it puts the Department of Sanity in a hard spot.

It's not that I don't believe in reality, it's just that I prefer to stay in my own alternative version of it.

The only way to stay sane in a mad world is to embrace the madness.

The truth is a trap; you can't get it without trapping yourself.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

The worst thing about a conspiracy is not that it's hidden, but that it's believed.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

The problem with time is that it always moves forward, even when you're desperately trying to go back.

The future is just a collection of choices we haven't made yet.