Winston Smith

"Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me."

"We are the dead."

"Alone—free—the mind needs exercising constantly, or it grows weak."

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

"The book was an outrage. It was also a masterpiece."

"I love Big Brother."

"The past is destroyed, but fragments of it can be found by sifting through the rubble."

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five."

"Rebellion meant a look in the eyes of some Georgia cutthroat."

"The Party would announce that the earth was flat and you would have to believe it."

"There is no such thing as history anymore."

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

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

"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her."

"Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me."

"He loved 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."

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"We are the dead. It is the future that matters."

"No one is free, except the dead."

"The thought-police would get him just the same."

"He loved Big Brother."

"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."

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

"Always in your stomach and in your skin there is a sort of protest, a feeling that you ought to escape."

"The smell of gin on her breath was nauseating."

"It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body."

"She had even seemed to like the Party, which was strange and slightly disconcerting."