| “We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 1990! Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the world?” | Montag |
| “I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘guilty,’ but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.” | Faber |
| “I don’t know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing. I looked around. The only think I positively knew was gone was the books I’d burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help.” | Montag |
| “But who has ever torn himself from the claw that enclosed you when you drop a seed in a TV parlor?” | Faber |
| “I plunk the children in school nine days out of ten. I put up with them when they come home three days a month; it’s not bad at all. You heave them into the ‘parlor’ and turn the switch. It’s like washing clothes; stuff laundry in and slam the lid.” | Mrs. Bowles |
| “Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you’ve had, go home and think of that and your Caesarean sections, too, and your children who hate your guts. Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to stop it? Go home, go home!” | Montag |
| “the sheep returns to the fold. We’re all sheep who have strayed at times.” | Beatty |
Fahrenheit 451 Part 2 Quotes
February 7, 2020