Winston Smith

"For whom, it suddenly occurred to him to wonder, was he writing this diary?"

"Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."

"The terrible thing about the Party is not that it is oppressive or brutal, as it is, but that it is utterly sane."

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

"We are the dead. Our time is up."

"The terrible thing, the really terrible thing, was that Julia was dead."

"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me!"

"You do not escape, ever. They catch you always, in the end."

"The best books are treasuries of good words and golden thoughts."

"I love Big Brother."

"Like a black iron bar, like an immovable mass."

"Syme would be vaporized. It was written in his face."

"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."

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

"We are the dead."

"I love Big Brother."

"Sanity is not statistical."

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

"We are the dead. Our time is finished."

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

"It was not a moment to think of personal happiness. It was a moment to think of victory."

"He loved Big Brother."

"Syme has vanished. This morning there was no Syme at the Ministry."

"Discipline is the conquest of oneself for a higher good—or was it just the conquest for the sake of conquest?"

"The Ministry of Love is the really frightening one."

"When one knows that it is all meaningless, does one still yearn for sleep?"

"To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone."

"There is truth and there is untruth, and if you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you are not mad."

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

"He loved Big Brother."