1984

"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 not enough to obey Big Brother? You must love him."

"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."

"Sanity is not statistical."

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

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

"Even now I do not suppose that you fully understand the purpose of Power."

"The worst thing in the world is not physical pain, but fear of physical pain."

"It was not by rearranging atoms that you could prevent him from loving Big Brother, but by rearranging his molecules."

"He loved Big Brother."

"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."

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

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

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

"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her."

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

"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 all perfectly in order?"

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

"By making him suffer."

"How does one man assert his power over another?"

"There is no such thing as history anymore."

"Do not imagine that you will save yourself that way."

"The Party would announce that the earth was flat and you would have to believe it."

"There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother."

"The Party has closed off the possibility of independent action or belief."

"The act of lying is exactly the same as the act of thinking."

"Rebellion meant a look in the eyes of some Georgia cutthroat."