Winston Smith

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

"They are asking me to betray you for Big Brother."

"It is our duty to the past as well as to the future to make the truth known."

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

"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"

"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"

"It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage"

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

"The records of the past were constantly being rewritten to match the present narrative"

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

"We are the dead. 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."

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

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

"He loved Big Brother."

"The best books are treasuries of the best words."

"The paperwork is an old-fashioned thing, a relic of the past."

"Memory must be the seat of the soul. In animals there is memory but no recollection."

"The best place to hide is in plain sight, within the Party itself."

"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."

"He loved Big Brother."

"The act of resistance had no meaning. All was futile."

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

"There is truth and there is untruth, and if you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you are sane."

"Do you see any signs of love here?"

"The proles are the only class with a chance of overthrowing the Party."

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

"He loved her and would love her forever. But he also hated her. Why should that be?"

"I do not remember when I gave up the idea that power could be overthrown from within."