1984

"The Party wants power over not just the world, but over the very nature of reality itself."

"The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed."

"Always in your heart there was a private hope that someday people would rise up and overthrow the Party."

"Do anything, but do not come down on the wrong side of the fence."

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

"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."

"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."

"Sane people do not doubt their own sanity."

"You begin to understand the conditions under which the Party exists."

"At this moment they still think of themselves as the servants of the state."

"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter."

"Do you understand that no one whom we bring here ever leaves our hands alive?"

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

"It is intolerable to live this way anymore."

"Presumably there could be no danger in a man of whose unorthodoxy you were so frankly aware."

"But always—do not forget this, Winston—always there will be the intoxication of power."

"The Party controls all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not?"

"We have beaten you, Winston. We have broken you."

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

"The old civilizations claimed that they were based on love or justice. Ours is based upon hatred."

"Is it conceivable that they could be other colors? Cease to exist?"

"You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."

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

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

"You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."

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

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

"Do you see, Winston, that it is all perfectly in order? Do you see that you have no alternative?"