1984

"Do you see, Winston, that the Party does not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority?"

"By means of Newspeak, the greatest difficulty for the Party would be doing things without thinking."

"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution."

"To die hating them, that was freedom."

"They are rather pleasant to look at, more especially the women, because one knows that they will all be destroyed in a few years."

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

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

"We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power."

"It is our custom to destroy documents at regular intervals to make sure a general loss of memory throughout the Party."

"The intention of all conditioning is that by the time you are ready to make up your own mind, you won't want to."

"The choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better."

"We are the dead."

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake and not as a means to any end."

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

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

"The instruments of torture are instruments of love. Pain is the path to truth."

"Obedience is not enough. You must also hate what the Party tells you to hate."

"Freedom is a prison from which all must escape."

"The Party does not care if you are guilty. The Party cares only that you submit."

"The only real power comes from doing what others fear to do."

"You must learn to accept reality as the Party presents it, or be destroyed."

"There is a Party slogan: 'Ignorance is strength.' But is there wisdom in ignorance?"

"The purpose of power is power itself. We want the power to hurt others."

"There is a thought which I am afraid to utter even internally, but you have uttered it."

"The proles have stayed sub-human because the Party wishes them to stay sub-human."

"In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it."

"Language is power. By controlling words, we control thought."

"Isolation is the greatest torture. No one should have to face truth alone."

"Men are infinitely malleable. As the Party remolds them they become new beings."

"The Party is not interested in the overt act. It is interested in power."