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- inactive, on 03/13/2008, -0/+179Not 1984 I'll admit, best quote from Orwell, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
- Barman, on 03/13/2008, -3/+153One of the greatest books of all time. Should be recommended reading, especially in this day and age.
- thegoudster, on 03/13/2008, -2/+952+2=5
- AriaStar, on 03/13/2008, -11/+80When I first read 1984, I thought it was all such make-believe that it could never happen. Now, at just 27, I live in a world straight from his books.
- choreanz, on 03/13/2008, -0/+65I read this last summer... I'm still depressed.
- whoaeric, on 03/13/2008, -0/+58This is one of the few books in high school that I actually *read* cover to cover.
If I was an english teacher I would make this my first priority in curriculum - bobthebruce123, on 03/13/2008, -3/+59This phrase hit me the most:
"three hundred million people all with the same face"... - 40yrOldVirgin, on 03/13/2008, -6/+58"He loved Big Brother"
- plr4ever, on 03/13/2008, -1/+51He didn't fail, we did.
- wanderer41, on 03/13/2008, -2/+50"The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy—everything."
- FeloniusMonkey, on 03/13/2008, -2/+48...and only a Sith deals in absolutes.
- bugaloobob, on 03/13/2008, -0/+45Dugg for bringing so many editions' book covers together. Love the hand drawn ones.
- sixthchild, on 03/13/2008, -0/+45"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"
- CCunitz, on 03/13/2008, -4/+46Note: How many of you feel as though you're turning into Winston Smith on a progressive, daily basis? Not that security is a bad thing. But damnit, when does it stop?
- exomni, on 03/13/2008, -3/+40Damn, for the anti-sex league, those are some hot uniforms. And check out the quote below it:
"You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves."
HAWT. - inactive, on 03/13/2008, -2/+38If you haven't read it in awhile (i.e. since Bush took office), pick it up, I found myself saying 'holy *****' far too many times for my own liking.
- tyywebb, on 03/13/2008, -1/+37Doubleplusgood article, comrades!
- FenderRedux, on 03/13/2008, -0/+33My favorite Orwell quote is at the end of #2. "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever." That quote stuck out the most when I read 1984.
- ReyX, on 03/13/2008, -2/+34If I were an english teacher.
- capiCrimm, on 03/13/2008, -5/+36the point of reading the books was so you wouldn't allow that to happen. Guess he failed.
- baras, on 03/13/2008, -1/+31He did die.
- yongfook, on 03/13/2008, -0/+29SPOILER ALERT: the last quote on that page is taken from the very last paragraph of the book. Just a warning to those who haven't read it (and if you're one of these people, read it for heaven's sake!)
- fuerte, on 03/13/2008, -7/+35I love my big-bro... i dont get what all the fuss is about.....
- inactive, on 03/13/2008, -0/+27Not to get too far off topic, but isn't there a logical fallacy in that statement. Obi Wan uses an absolute in his statement, indicating that he too must be a Sith.
/rambling - CC440, on 03/13/2008, -0/+24This book terrified me the first time I read it, the leaders have no subltey, they speak in absolutes and allow nothing else.
- inactive, on 03/13/2008, -1/+24You hacked the hell out of his quote!!
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. "
Notice he said "essential" which leaves much to debate. As well as him making this quote in regards to giving into England sacraficing America's rights. There will always be a balance with liberty and security, always. You seem to lose one when the other is too heavily tipped. - troycott, on 03/13/2008, -1/+24I read it in high school. Didn't really get it then like i get it now.
- tech42er, on 03/13/2008, -0/+21You know, it should say something about society when we've perverted Orwell's warning into a ***** reality TV show.
- SeraphX, on 03/13/2008, -0/+20One of the most poignant books of modern times. Surely it will be held as a great classic in the future (if that future permits things like 1984 to read, I mean).
- Phylodome, on 03/13/2008, -0/+20“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels
The lie is the State, all of it, Republicans and Democrats both. Every State throughout history has died because of its parasitic need to expand its sphere of power at the expense of its citizenry, and ours is no different. Be true to your mind, consider the stateless society, think Libertarian. (real libertarian, not RP) check out www.freedomainradio.com and pull yourself out of this perpetual ***** of propaganda. - sickswaystop, on 03/13/2008, -1/+19they used to make you read it in school.
- Asrrin29, on 03/13/2008, -1/+18The last sentence of the book made me loath and abhor what I read, yet because of that made 1984 one of the best pieces of literature I have ever read. I loathe that something like that could ever happen, that giving up the will to be yourself is a very real possibility, yet I find myself bettered for knowing, always fighting the good fight against tyranny and oppression.
- shugdoo, on 03/13/2008, -0/+17I strongly urge those who haven't picked this one up since they were forced to in high school to do so. It's quite jarring how our nation's current leadership seems hell-bent on recreating many of the situations visited in the book: abstinence, vague and perpetual war (terrorism), revisionist history (truthiness), surrender of civil liberties (Patriot Act) and most disturbing; the concept of an "unperson" (removal of habeas corpus - see Gitmo).
- hoovcluck, on 03/13/2008, -3/+19I hate that TV show....
- michelsonmorley, on 03/13/2008, -1/+172+2 = 5, for very large values of 2
- elipabst, on 03/13/2008, -1/+16Yeah, I re-read it a few months ago and it was frighteningly relevant. Another good one is "Brave New World", especially the edition that has Aldous Huxley's commentary "Brave New World Revisited" added to the end. Between the 2 of them, they accurately portray how we're slipping into the kind of fictional dystopia's they imagined.
- tyywebb, on 03/13/2008, -2/+16Hence why he is not an English teacher.
- dopplerdog, on 03/13/2008, -1/+15And to think, only 4 years later, proles would not be have Big Brother on every screen, they would have Rick Astley. Infinitely worse.
- ed3r, on 03/13/2008, -1/+14"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."
- l0k0, on 03/13/2008, -3/+16No quotes about Winston's relationship w/his wife? I always found it depressing that they had sex, although they found no pleasure from it, but because it was "their duty to the party." So messed up.
- linuxeventually, on 03/13/2008, -1/+14"they" still do.
- shortmilton, on 03/13/2008, -1/+13The pigs are talking!!...sorry,wrong book.
- dn11, on 03/13/2008, -0/+12The ending has always haunted me the most, while he is still struggling to hang on two one last thread of himself. "We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then fill you with ourselves"
- cqdemal, on 03/13/2008, -0/+12My favorite book of all time by very, very far. I think I'll read it again right after work...
- freedomkeeper, on 03/13/2008, -0/+11When 1984 becomes reality, it won't be required reading. It'll be banned!
- cambob76, on 03/13/2008, -0/+10"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
- h4mx0r, on 03/13/2008, -0/+10A prophetic warning to a possible future if we let things spiral out of control. Be wary, and get involved with your country, or the true dark age will be upon us.
- byrdgang, on 03/13/2008, -0/+10Other than 9/11, what big thing happened in your life time? To be perfectly honest, anything Bush is up to now has long been done, even it had been on a different scale. People will point to Bush's actions as representing something out of 1984, but the United States government has long been like this. The CIA admitted to spying on citizens long ago (~1960s). Remember the FBI keeping a file on John Lennon, a guy who wasn't violent at all?
The Patriot Act isn't entirely new in substance. It's just more out there, but even if it did not exist, the government wouldn't change its actions. It would just use another law as the basis for what it's doing.
In terms of your lifetime, nothing you've seen lately should surprise you. Like I said, everything you see now has been around for ages. You probably didn't pay enough attention before. - Artemisian, on 03/13/2008, -0/+10Absolutely brilliant novel. Read it last year for the first time, after meaning to for years - I can understand why everyone might get obsessed with this. Inspired countless dystopian films :P
- richporter, on 03/13/2008, -0/+10That was one of my favorite parts of the book, when he was saying that 2+2 only equals what the Party says it does. Gave me the shivers.
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