Winston Smith

Character in 1984 From: 1984

Protagonist; Party member seeking truth and freedom

393 quotes

"We are the dead. Our time is up."
Death
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
Hope
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me."
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
Relationships
"The best books are treasuries of the best that men have thought."
Literature
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
Truth
"Do anything, but not that! Not Room 101!"
Fear
"He loved Big Brother."
Power
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"The best books are treasuries of good words and golden thoughts, which record the thoughts of the great and the good."
Literature
"The proles are human beings and for that reason, in a sense that [the Party members] are not, they are immortal."
Philosophy
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
Wisdom
"There is some sort of conspiracy that I am not aware of."
Fear
"Perhaps a man really is only born at the time of his death; certainly we know nothing about the days before we were conscious."
Philosophy
"The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as recently as four years ago."
Truth
"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 is the only way to love."
Love
"Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me."
"If you try to resist their domination, they will only press harder."
Courage
"What is love if not the acceptance of those we are told to despise?"
Love
"Even if they torture your mind, the Party cannot touch your actual love."
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 gone."
Death
"It is our duty to the past as well as to the future."
History
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
Truth
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"He loved Big Brother."
Power
"The Party could not protect them in the long run. Not ultimately."
Hope