Winston Smith

"I am human; let me live like a human being and think of human beings."

"Always in your stomach and in your skin there is a sort of protest."

"It is intolerable to live with a human being who practices thought-control."

"The worst thing in the world is not violence but betrayal."

"It was horrible but also exhilarating."

"He loved Big Brother."

"Three years it must last; three years before we are dead."

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

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."

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

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

"We are the dead."

"Sanity is not statistical."

"Nothing here now. No colour in anything. They've bleached everything out."

"He loved Big Brother."

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

"The instrument was called the Reckonometer. He had invented it himself."

"They can order you to commit suicide and you have to do it."

"He loved Big Brother."

"They can make you say anything. They can make you believe anything."

"The child nodded and then asked: 'This is a Newspeak word, isn't it?'"

"The best books, he perceived, are treasuries of disagreeable facts."

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

"Sanity is not statistical."

"I love Big Brother."

"They could not alter the past. Of all that mattered, the Party could alter nothing."

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

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel."

"The terrible thing about the Party is not that it is wicked—its sin is that it is hollow."