"In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it."
Power
"There is a Party slogan: 'Ignorance is strength.' But is there wisdom in ignorance?"
Knowledge
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"They are rather pleasant to look at, more especially the women, because one knows that they will all be destroyed in a few years."
Death
"To die hating them, that was freedom."
Freedom
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"Do not trust her. She is not one of us."
Fear
"There is no escape. We are trapped."
Fear
"The best books are treasuries of the finest thoughts."
Literature
"She should have been shot years ago."
Fear
"No book has ever been written that equals it."
Literature
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"The hope of the proles lay in the fact that they had once started to become civilized."
Hope
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
Wisdom
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
Hope
"There is truth and there is untruth, and if you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you are sane."
Truth
"The Party wanted to turn the sex instinct into a narrow channelled thing, rather like the sense of ear for music."
Philosophy
"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in."
Power
"We love Big Brother."
Power
"The past was dead, the future was unimaginable."
Time
"It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage."
Strength
"Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me."
"It was not a voluntary confession but a grasping of the obvious truth."
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
"Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me."
"It is intolerable to live this way anymore."
Freedom
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Freedom
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
Hope