1984

"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."

"The hope is tiny—it never dies. But it is so deeply buried beneath the surface that you cannot find it."

"Torture and suffering break men and create the perfect instrument of power."

"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, but in the mind of the Party."

"The world will not be destroyed. It will simply be conquered."

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

"The past is whatever the Party says it is. It is because they control all records, and they control all memories."

"Do not count on human brotherhood. It does not exist."

"The Party is not concerned with obeying orders so much as with crushing the will to rebel."

"I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere."

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

"The proles are not going to revolt, they will never become conscious, because they cannot be allowed to see newspapers or listen to radio or travel."

"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."

"The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one."

"It was not the game that mattered; it was the possession of the ball."

"You are a slow learner, Winston."

"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."

"The purpose of the Party is not to produce comfort but to produce more and more power."

"We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."

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

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

"Reality is inside the skull. Whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth."

"I betrayed you under torture. I would betray you again, gladly."

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

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

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