1984 Quote Posters

This set of 20 posters from George Orwell’s 1984, designed with a range of abstract images, highlight some of the key themes of the novel and will stimulate students’ interest before reading the book, spark discussion and aid study.

Quotes Include:

• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
• Big Brother is watching you.
• Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed – no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.
• Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
• The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential Command.
• If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
• WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
• If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
• 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.”
• We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
• 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.
• The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
• Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.
• Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
• Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
• You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.
• There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
• Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
• But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

All images are provided in PDF and JPG image formats and measure approximately 8 x 11 inches printed at 100% scale.

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