1984

"The Party has it in its power to make you happy or unhappy."

"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me!"

"I love Big Brother."

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

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

"There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party."

"The Party exists to control, and power is an end in itself."

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

"Do you see, Winston, that it is all perfectly in order? Everything is in its place."

"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

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

"Their embrace had been a failure. He had pushed her away, almost as though he hated her."

"You will learn by degrees, Winston. You are beneath me and within me."

"Some kinds of knowledge are difficult, others impossible."

"The girl's thin shoulders had a sharp, nervous quality that suggested a body coiled for action."

"We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."

"The only thing worth writing about now is an unprintable subject."

"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."

"She had even seemed to like the Party, which was strange and slightly disconcerting."

"It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body."

"We control life, Winston, at all its levels."

"The smell of gin on her breath was nauseating."

"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston? By making him suffer."

"Always in your stomach and in your skin there is a sort of protest, a feeling that you ought to escape."

"The best books are treasuries of good words and golden thoughts."

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

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

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

"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."