1984

"There was no Brotherhood. There never had been any Brotherhood"

"The Party controls the present. Who controls the past controls the future"

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

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

"The masses never will revolt, and they never can revolt because they are powerless"

"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 is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing"

"The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better"

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

"We are the dead. Our time is finished"

"The past is dead. The past no longer exists"

"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 Party is not interested in the good of others; it is interested solely in power."

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

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

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

"We are the dead. You are the dead."

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

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

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

"The Party demands total acceptance or total rejection of its authority."

"Victory over oneself is the only victory that matters."

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

"Rebellion is the only way to live."

"To die hating them, that was freedom."

"We need not worry about you. We shall cure you."

"God is Power. In the human sphere, the only god is Big Brother."

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