1984

"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."

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

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

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

"Do you see, Winston, that it is not enough to obey Big Brother. You must love him."

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

"Room 101 contains the worst thing in the world."

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

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

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

"They shoot horses, don't they? So they will shoot you, Winston."

"You like to read books. I can arrange for you to acquire them."

"The Brotherhood does not exist. The Brotherhood is everywhere. Believe in the Brotherhood."

"He loved Big Brother."

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

"Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?"

"The Party does not concern itself with the overt act. Our concern is with thought."

"I have told you already. The Party is not concerned with overt acts. It is not even concerned with crime. It is concerned solely with thought."

"The Party is immortal; you are not. The Party will still be here after you are dead."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Do you see, Winston, the logic of our position?"

"The solution to all political problems was the application of pain and fear"

"What are the three principles by which the Party maintains control? Power, deception, and the elimination of hope"

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

"Do you understand that even if we escape, they will still own us?"