1984
Quotes from 1984
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"He loved Big Brother."Winston Smith Love
"We make the future, and when we have made it we shall have unmade the past."O'Brien Power
"You are a slow learner, Winston, but you are learning."O'Brien Education
"The Party is not a creature of the past. It has no traditions, no customs, no code of conduct."O'Brien Politics
"Do you understand that everyone you know, everyone you love, will eventually be liquidated?"O'Brien Fear
"It is our custom to liquidate our enemies and then liquidate the evidence that we ever did so."O'Brien War
"We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness."O'Brien Hope
"We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested in power."O'Brien Power
"The Party is not interested in the overt act. It is interested in your thoughts."O'Brien
"The thought-police would get him just the same."Winston Smith Fear
"There is no escape. If I, for instance, were suddenly released, would it make any difference?"O'Brien
"We control matter because we control the mind. We control the mind because we control the body."O'Brien Power
"The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness. For the great bulk of mankind happiness is better."O'Brien Philosophy
"Room 101 is where they show you what you fear most."O'Brien Fear
"No one is free, except the dead."Winston Smith Freedom
"The Party controls all records, and we control the past."Syme History
"You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves."O'Brien Power
"The masses never revolt. They don't even think the Party is unjust."O'Brien Politics
"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?"O'Brien Power
"The Party exists for power. It has no other purpose."O'Brien Philosophy
"Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once."O'Brien Truth
"Do not imagine that you will save yourself, Winston. You have already lost everything."O'Brien Fear
"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
"We are the dead. It is the future that matters."Winston Smith Death
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."O'Brien War
"Power is not a means, it is an end."O'Brien Power
"The past is whatever the Party chooses to make it."Syme Truth
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."Winston Smith Knowledge
"We shall abolish the orgasm."O'Brien
"The proles are not going to revolt, not in a thousand years or a million."O'Brien Power