All 39 Uses of
revolution
in
1984, by Orwell
- Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago, nobody quite remembered), had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared.
p. 12.1revolutionary = fighting to overthrow a government
- …he was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed—
p. 12.9revolution = overthrow of the old government
- In the Party histories, of course, Big Brother figured as the leader and guardian of the Revolution since its very earliest days.
p. 36.1revolution = dramatic change brought on by the overthrow of the old government
- The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
p. 52.7
- Before the Revolution they had been hideously oppressed by the capitalists, they had been starved and flogged, women had been forced to work in the coal mines (women still did work in the coal mines, as a matter of fact), children had been sold into the factories at the age of six.
p. 70.9revolution = overthrow of the old government
- The thing you invariably came back to was the impossibility of knowing what life before the Revolution had really been like.
p. 72.5
- In the old days (it ran), before the glorious Revolution, London was not the beautiful city that we know today.
p. 72.6revolution = dramatic change brought on by the overthrow of the old government
- It might be true that the average human being was better off now than he had been before the Revolution.
p. 73.7
- The Party claimed, for example, that today 40 per cent of adult proles were literate: before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been 15 per cent. The Party claimed that the infant mortality rate was now only 160 per thousand, whereas before the Revolution it had been 300 — and so it went on.
p. 74.8
- The Party claimed, for example, that today 40 per cent of adult proles were literate: before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been 15 per cent. The Party claimed that the infant mortality rate was now only 160 per thousand, whereas before the Revolution it had been 300 — and so it went on.
p. 74.9
- The story really began in the middle sixties, the period of the great purges in which the original leaders of the Revolution were wiped out once and for all.
p. 75.4
- All the rest had by that time been exposed as traitors and counter-revolutionaries.
p. 75.5revolutionaries = people fighting to overthrow a government
- They had confessed to intelligence with the enemy (at that date, too, the enemy was Eurasia), embezzlement of public funds, the murder of various trusted Party members, intrigues against the leadership of Big Brother which had started long before the Revolution happened, and acts of sabotage causing the death of hundreds of thousands of people.
p. 75.9revolution = dramatic change brought on by the overthrow of the old government
- Rutherford had once been a famous caricaturist, whose brutal cartoons had helped to inflame popular opinion before and during the Revolution.
p. 76.7
- As Winston stood watching, it occurred to him that the old man, who must be eighty at the least, had already been middle-aged when the Revolution happened.
p. 86.8
- In the Party itself there were not many people left whose ideas had been formed before the Revolution.
p. 86.9
- You can remember what it was like in the old days, before the Revolution.
p. 89.6
- The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now.
p. 89.7
- You have been alive a very long time; you lived half your life before the Revolution.
p. 92.2 *
- Within twenty years at the most, he reflected, the huge and simple question, 'Was life better before the Revolution than it is now?' would have ceased once and for all to be answerable.
p. 93.0
- Anything large and impressive, if it was reasonably new in appearance, was automatically claimed as having been built since the Revolution, while anything that was obviously of earlier date was ascribed to some dim period called the Middle Ages.
p. 98.6
- She had no memories of anything before the early sixties and the only person she had ever known who talked frequently of the days before the Revolution was a grandfather who had disappeared when she was eight.
p. 130.4
- He wondered vaguely how many others like her there might be in the younger generation 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.
p. 131.8
- She had grown up since the Revolution and was too young to remember the ideological battles of the fifties and sixties.
p. 153.1
- And when he told her that airplanes had been in existence before he was born and long before the Revolution, the fact struck her as totally uninteresting.
p. 153.9
- They belonged to the old days, before the Revolution.
p. 154.9
- Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution.
p. 155.2revolution = overthrow of the old government
- Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution.
p. 155.2revolution = dramatic change brought on by the overthrow of the old government
- This failed to happen, partly because of the impoverishment caused by a long series of wars and revolutions, partly because scientific and technical progress depended on the empirical habit of thought, which could not survive in a strictly regimented society.
p. 189.2revolutions = overthrow of governments
- In the past the Middle had made revolutions under the banner of equality, and then had established a fresh tyranny as soon as the old one was overthrown.
p. 203.1
- The heirs of the French, English, and American revolutions had partly believed in their own phrases about the rights of man, freedom of speech, equality before the law, and the like, and have even allowed their conduct to be influenced by them to some extent.
p. 204.6
- It was only after a decade of national wars, civil wars, revolutions, and counter-revolutions in all parts of the world that Ingsoc and its rivals emerged as fully worked-out political theories.
p. 205.1
- It was only after a decade of national wars, civil wars, revolutions, and counter-revolutions in all parts of the world that Ingsoc and its rivals emerged as fully worked-out political theories.
p. 205.1
- After the revolutionary period of the fifties and sixties, society regrouped itself, as always, into High, Middle, and Low.
p. 206.2revolutionary = dramatically changing
- In the years following the Revolution it was able to step into this commanding position almost unopposed, because the whole process was represented as an act of collectivization.
p. 206.6revolution = dramatic change brought on by the overthrow of the old government
- One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
p. 263.7revolution = overthrow of an old government
- Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution.
p. 267.3revolution = dramatic change brought on by the overthrow of the old government
- But no advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.†
p. 202.5
- One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.†
p. 263.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(revolution as in: the computer revolution) dramatic change -- sometimes violent overthrow of a government
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(2)
(revolution as in: revolution around the sun) circular movement -- sometimes referring to exactly one rotation