O'Brien

Character in 1984 From: 1984

Inner Party member; manipulator and torturer of Winston

730 quotes

"Even to understand the word 'politics' you would need to swallow enormous amounts of lies."
Truth
"The worst thing in the world, the worst thing in the world, is not pain. It is fear."
Fear
"The only real power comes through doing what others are afraid to do."
Power
"The Party wants you to feel like a slave, like an animal who exists only by sufferance."
Power
"Do you see, Winston, that it is not enough to obey Big Brother? You must love him."
Power
"Do not trust your own mind. Accept what the Party tells you."
Power
"We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."
Power
"You are a thought-criminal, Winston. You are also insane."
Politics
"If the Party says two plus two equals five, then it is so."
Power
"You must love Big Brother."
Power
"There is no escape. The past is dead. The future does not exist."
Time
"Comrade, you are rotting away. You are falling to pieces."
Strength
"The Party wants absolute obedience, not the obedience of mere obedience."
Power
"The Party is immortal; you are not."
Power
"Do you see, Winston, that it is not enough to obey Big Brother? You must love him."
Power
"Power is not a means, it is an end."
Power
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake."
Politics
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face."
Power
"Do not imagine that you will save yourself, Winston. You did what you thought was right."
Justice
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
Hope
"The Proles are human beings and when humanity is finally destroyed, we shall be the only human beings."
Power
"We shall see how much you love Big Brother when we get you to the cage."
Fear
"Everything that is good is against nature."
Philosophy
"It is not enough to obey Big Brother. You must love him."
Power
"In the end, we shall destroy everything, and then we shall build again."
Power
"The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself."
Power
"Do you see, Winston, that it is not enough to obey the Party. You must love Big Brother."
Power
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power."
Power
"I hate purity. I hate goodness. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones."
Power
"Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together in new shapes of your own choosing."
Power