Winston Smith

Character in 1984 From: 1984

Protagonist; Party member seeking truth and freedom

393 quotes

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
Relationships
"Presumably there could be no such thing as a woman who did not understand."
Relationships
"I am thinking, I am alive. I am Winston Smith."
"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
"Do it to Julia!"
Fear
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
Hope
"He loved Big Brother."
Power
"Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once."
Truth
"Until they became conscious they will never rebel."
Leadership
"The paperweight was the room."
Beauty
"This does not matter. Not even this matters now."
Philosophy
"The girl was a spy all along."
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"It is our custom to destroy old documents and replace them with new ones."
Politics
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved, so much as to be understood."
Relationships
"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it."
Power
"He loved Big Brother."
Power
"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."
Hope
"We are the dead. Our time is up."
Fear
"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."
"I betrayed you under torture. I would betray you again, gladly."
Power
"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
Truth
"It was not the game that mattered; it was the possession of the ball."
Power
"The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one."
Fear
"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
"The hope is tiny—it never dies. But it is so deeply buried beneath the surface that you cannot find it."
Hope