1984

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

"Do you understand that even if he escapes us, we shall catch him all the same?"

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

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

"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."

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

"We have beaten you, Winston. We have broken you up. You have ceased to be human."

"You begin to see, comrade, the beauty of the creation of Newspeak."

"If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?"

"Do not suppose that you will save yourself. You will die. But you may die with the knowledge that you have done your duty."

"It was not a voluntary confession but a grasping of the obvious truth."

"The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself."

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

"I enjoyed it. I hated it. It was all I could think about."

"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes. Only in the mind of the Party."

"Humanity will be destroyed. Humanity always is destroyed."

"It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage."

"The past was dead, the future was unimaginable."

"We love Big Brother."

"The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in."

"It is intolerable to us that an errand boy should earn nearly as much as a head of a department."

"The Party wanted to turn the sex instinct into a narrow channelled thing, rather like the sense of ear for music."

"There is truth and there is untruth, and if you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you are sane."

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

"I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones."

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"The hope of the proles lay in the fact that they had once started to become civilized."

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