1984

"Do you understand that you will have to give me everything? Everything!"

"Do it! They are in the next room. Do it now!"

"What are you doing to me?"

"Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop."

"Sanity is not statistical."

"He loved Big Brother."

"The Party controls all records, and we control all memories."

"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 not mad."

"Reality is inside the skull."

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

"Do you see, Winston, that it is all perfectly in order?"

"The Party has already won. Tomorrow they will have won yesterday."

"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."

"When one knows that it is all meaningless, does one still yearn for sleep?"

"The Ministry of Love is the really frightening one."

"Discipline is the conquest of oneself for a higher good—or was it just the conquest for the sake of conquest?"

"We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power."

"I hate purity. I hate goodness. I want everyone corrupt."

"Syme has vanished. This morning there was no Syme at the Ministry."

"The Party is immortal; you are not. Your only duty is to surrender yourself completely to the Party."

"Sometimes they are five fingers, sometimes three, and sometimes all of them at once."

"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter."

"He loved Big Brother."

"It was not a moment to think of personal happiness. It was a moment to think of victory."

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

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

"Power is not a means; it is an end."

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others."