“ Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs. Carla H. Krueger
“ Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist. Carla H. Krueger
“ It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money. Carla H. Krueger
“ I fear no hell, just as I expect no heaven. Nabokov summed up a nonbeliever’s view of the cosmos, and our place in it, thus: “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existe… Jeffrey Tayler
“ Fear of the mob is a superstitious fear. It is based on the idea that there is some mysterious, fundamental difference between rich and poor, as though they were two different races, like Negroes and… George Orwell
“ Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, r… George Orwell
“ [..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job. George Orwell
“ What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolate, was almost the same as being in it. The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct anim… George Orwell
“ Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist. George Orwell
“ Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in p… George Orwell
“ Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination.' He pushed the thought under… George Orwell
“ O’Brien: How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston: By making him suffer.O’Brien: Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be s… George Orwell
“ One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old. George Orwell
“ He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.'White to play and mate in two moves.'Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. Whit… George Orwell
