Quotes About Winston Smith

#1. 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

#2. he despised the alternative flow of information and insight, which was gossip and rumor. Like Winston Smith, he was first and foremost activated by a raging thirst to know: a thirst that could only be slaked by a personal quest for the least varnished version of the truth.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. I read '1984' at a precocious age, like 8, and when I did the math, I realized that Julia, Winston Smith's lover, was born the same year I was, 1957. I read that book over and over again with the 1960s as a backdrop: anti-war and anti-bomb protests and this general pervasive sense of doom.

Elizabeth Hand

#4. He felt suddenly like Winston Smith in Room 101 of the Ministry of Love.

Daniel Silva

#5. Her revenge to-do list kept getting longer and longer.

Thea Harrison

#6. Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.

Winston Smith

#7. Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

Thomas Hobbes

#8. You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived ... It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

Brandon Sanderson

#9. Blondie pressed the gun into him even harder. "I'm gonna count to one," the man said into his ear. "Just one.

James Dashner

#10. If anything can be done, it can be overdone is my point of view.

Winston Smith

#11. False attributions are the bane of legitimate discourse.

Winston Smith

#12. As a husband, your love for your wife has a specific goal: her holiness.

Winston Smith

#13. Amazon didn't create any jobs. Amazon probably destroyed a million jobs in our economy.

Nick Hanauer