1984

Book · 6 characters · 1213 quotes · 2003

Quotes from 1984

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"He loved Big Brother."
Winston Smith Love
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"We make the future, and when we have made it we shall have unmade the past."
O'Brien Power
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"You are a slow learner, Winston, but you are learning."
O'Brien Education
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"The Party is not a creature of the past. It has no traditions, no customs, no code of conduct."
O'Brien Politics
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"Do you understand that everyone you know, everyone you love, will eventually be liquidated?"
O'Brien Fear
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"It is our custom to liquidate our enemies and then liquidate the evidence that we ever did so."
O'Brien War
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"We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness."
O'Brien Hope
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"We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested in power."
O'Brien Power
O
"The Party is not interested in the overt act. It is interested in your thoughts."
O'Brien
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"The thought-police would get him just the same."
Winston Smith Fear
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"There is no escape. If I, for instance, were suddenly released, would it make any difference?"
O'Brien
O
"We control matter because we control the mind. We control the mind because we control the body."
O'Brien Power
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"The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness. For the great bulk of mankind happiness is better."
O'Brien Philosophy
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"Room 101 is where they show you what you fear most."
O'Brien Fear
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"No one is free, except the dead."
Winston Smith Freedom
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"The Party controls all records, and we control the past."
Syme History
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"You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves."
O'Brien Power
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"The masses never revolt. They don't even think the Party is unjust."
O'Brien Politics
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"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?"
O'Brien Power
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"The Party exists for power. It has no other purpose."
O'Brien Philosophy
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"Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once."
O'Brien Truth
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"Do not imagine that you will save yourself, Winston. You have already lost everything."
O'Brien Fear
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"Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?"
O'Brien Power
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"We are the dead. It is the future that matters."
Winston Smith Death
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"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."
O'Brien War
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"Power is not a means, it is an end."
O'Brien Power
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"The past is whatever the Party chooses to make it."
Syme Truth
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"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
Winston Smith Knowledge
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"We shall abolish the orgasm."
O'Brien
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"The proles are not going to revolt, not in a thousand years or a million."
O'Brien Power