1984

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

"The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion."

"They can't invent anything that would surprise me anymore."

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel."

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

"Sanity is not statistical."

"They could not turn you into a disagreeing machine."

"The hope lay in the proles, if the proles could somehow become conscious of their own strength."

"You are a flaw in the pattern. You are a stain that must be wiped out."

"Alone—free—the thought filled him with an almost sexual excitement."

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

"I love Big Brother."

"How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible."

"Two and two make five."

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

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

"I hate purity. I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones."

"It is our custom to destroy all documents and records."

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake."

"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 all perfectly in order?"

"The Party is not concerned with keeping the masses happy."

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

"Rats, he thought, or maggots, or worms?"

"Torture is for learning, not for punishment."

"We make the laws of nature. Nature is governed by us, not we by nature."

"Even to understand the word 'politics' is to understand power."

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

"We exist to serve power, not for any purpose beyond power itself."

"Two and two make five."