THE PROLES in Classic Quotes

1  But if there was hope, it lay in the proles.

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

2  In reality very little was known about the proles.

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

3  One never saw a double bed nowadays, except in the homes of the proles.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4

4  The Party claimed, of course, to have liberated the proles from bondage.

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

5  It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings.

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

6  But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength.

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

7  'Steamer' was a nickname which, for some reason, the proles applied to rocket bombs.

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

8  Some could even be purchased for a bottle of gin, which the proles were not supposed to drink.

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

9  The slightly more favoured workers whom we call 'the proles' are only intermittently conscious of the war.'

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

10  It was one of countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4

11  For that matter, even religious worship would have been permitted if the proles had shown any sign of needing or wanting it.

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

12  The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention.

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

13  It had been on the tip of his tongue to say 'Except the proles,' but he checked himself, not feeling fully certain that this remark was not in some way unorthodox.

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

14  For the first time in his life he did not despise the proles or think of them merely as an inert force which would one day spring to life and regenerate the world.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7

15  But simultaneously, true to the Principles of doublethink, the Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules.

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

16  In the terms of our earlier classification, the proles are the Low: for the slave population of the equatorial lands who pass constantly from conqueror to conqueror, are not a permanent or necessary part of the structure.

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

17  There was a vast amount of criminality in London, a whole world-within-a-world of thieves, bandits, prostitutes, drug-peddlers, and racketeers of every description; but since it all happened among the proles themselves, it was of no importance.

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