ENEMIES in Classic Quotes

1  We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2

2  Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6

3  Not love so much as eroticism was the enemy, inside marriage as well as outside it.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6

4  Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

5  My kid made sure he was some kind of enemy agent--might have been dropped by parachute, for instance.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

6  But also they were outlaws, enemies, untouchables, doomed with absolute certainty to extinction within a year or two.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

7  All that they did was to keep alive in him the belief, or hope, that others besides himself were the enemies of the Party.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

8  It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one's own body.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

9  Other words, again, were ambivalent, having the connotation 'good' when applied to the Party and 'bad' when applied to its enemies.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX

10  The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

11  All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

12  Winston had never been able to feel sure--even after this morning's flash of the eyes it was still impossible to be sure whether O'Brien was a friend or an enemy.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

13  It was a museum used for propaganda displays of various kinds--scale models of rocket bombs and Floating Fortresses, waxwork tableaux illustrating enemy atrocities, and the like.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8

14  He is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and self-abasement before the power and wisdom of the Party.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9

15  He would talk with a disagreeable gloating satisfaction of helicopter raids on enemy villages, and trials and confessions of thought-criminals, the executions in the cellars of the Ministry of Love.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

16  He had no subjects of conversation except the principles of Ingsoc, and no aim in life except the defeat of the Eurasian enemy and the hunting-down of spies, saboteurs, thought-criminals, and traitors generally.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

17  Pursued by enemy jet planes while flying over the Indian Ocean with important despatches, he had weighted his body with his machine gun and leapt out of the helicopter into deep water, despatches and all--an end, said Big Brother, which it was impossible to contemplate without feelings of envy.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4