O'Brien

"If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?"

"We have beaten you, Winston. We have broken you up. You have ceased to be human."

"Do you see, Winston, that it is not enough to obey Big Brother? You must love him."

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake."

"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."

"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."

"Do you understand that even if he escapes us, we shall catch him all the same?"

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

"Do you see, Winston, that it is all perfectly in order? Do you see that you have no alternative?"

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power."

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."

"You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."

"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."

"You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."

"Is it conceivable that they could be other colors? Cease to exist?"

"The old civilizations claimed that they were based on love or justice. Ours is based upon hatred."

"We have beaten you, Winston. We have broken you."

"The Party controls all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not?"

"But always—do not forget this, Winston—always there will be the intoxication of power."

"Presumably there could be no danger in a man of whose unorthodoxy you were so frankly aware."

"The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."

"Do you understand that no one whom we bring here ever leaves our hands alive?"

"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter."

"At this moment they still think of themselves as the servants of the state."

"You begin to understand the conditions under which the Party exists."

"Sane people do not doubt their own sanity."

"Do you see, Winston, that it is not enough to obey Big Brother. You must love him."

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others."

"Do anything, but do not come down on the wrong side of the fence."

"Always in your heart there was a private hope that someday people would rise up and overthrow the Party."