"It was a pleasure to burn."
Power
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
Politics
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
Relationships
"There is truth and there is untruth. It is only by risking death that you discover it."
Truth
"The Party would prefer that we should have no hobbies, no emotions, no enjoyments."
Politics
"The Ministry of Love is the really frightening one."
Politics
"He loved Big Brother."
Politics
"We are the dead."
Death
"We are the dead. Our time is up."
Death
"The spirit of man is a wonderful thing. It can be buried and compressed under a million tons of tyranny, and still it will in the end prevail."
Courage
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
Hope
"The worst thing was to be afraid of something; it was not the fear that mattered but the act of surrender to fear."
Fear
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me!"
Fear
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"Rats. They were all round us. A favorite punishment: to be placed in a cage with your worst fear."
Fear
"The best books are treasuries of the dead."
Literature
"I do not accept your answers. Furthermore, I am not even sure that some of your answers are right."
Truth
"Rebellion means waking up."
Freedom
"The future belonged to the Proles."
Hope
"The man in black will come with whips and chains."
Fear
"In the end, we shall be happy."
Hope
"The glass paperweight contained the past."
History
"Slavery is freedom. Freedom is the right to say no."
Freedom
"Syme had been unpersoned. He no longer existed."
Politics
"I love you more than my own life."
Love
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"We are the dead. Our time is up."
Death
"Rebellion means a man willing to die for something."
Courage