THE MINISTRY in Classic Quotes

1  It had been a favourite of late with the Ministry of Plenty.

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

2  Parsons was Winston's fellow-employee at the Ministry of Truth.

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

3  And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs.

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

4  Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometre of it.

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

5  It had happened that morning at the Ministry, if anything so nebulous could be said to happen.

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

6  But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty's figures, it was not even forgery.

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

7  The announcement from the Ministry of Plenty ended on another trumpet call and gave way to tinny music.

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

8  A kilometre away the Ministry of Truth, his place of work, towered vast and white above the grimy landscape.

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

9  However, it was not the proclamation of a military victory this time, but merely an announcement from the Ministry of Plenty.

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

10  The quacking voice from the next table, temporarily silenced during the Ministry's announcement, had started up again, as loud as ever.

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

11  The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loopholes of a fortress.

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

12  And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat.

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

13  At nineteen he had designed a hand-grenade which had been adopted by the Ministry of Peace and which, at its first trial, had killed thirty-one Eurasian prisoners in one burst.

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

14  Each contained a message of only one or two lines, in the abbreviated jargon--not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words--which was used in the Ministry for internal purposes.

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

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
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5

16  By leaving the Ministry at this time of day he had sacrificed his lunch in the canteen, and he was aware that there was no food in the kitchen except a hunk of dark-coloured bread which had got to be saved for tomorrow's breakfast.

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

17  At the Ministry he was employed in some subordinate post for which intelligence was not required, but on the other hand he was a leading figure on the Sports Committee and all the other committees engaged in organizing community hikes, spontaneous demonstrations, savings campaigns, and voluntary activities generally.

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