1984
Quotes from 1984
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"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."Winston Smith Hope
"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else."O'Brien Philosophy
"You are a slow learner, Winston."O'Brien Education
"Do it to Julia!"Winston Smith Fear
"We are the dead. Our time is up."Winston Smith Death
"The book has been discovered and destroyed. No copy exists elsewhere. You have read the last copy that exists in the world."O'Brien Truth
"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."O'Brien Politics
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."O'Brien War
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others."O'Brien Power
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."Winston Smith Freedom
"Do you see, Winston, that it is not enough to obey Big Brother. You must love him."O'Brien Power
"I love you, Winston."Julia Love
"You are free. You are not compelled to work."O'Brien Freedom
"I am thinking, I am alive. I am Winston Smith."Winston Smith
"The supremacy of the Party does not depend on force."O'Brien Power
"Your mind contains encrypted and compressed files of years and years of conditioning."O'Brien
"We shall crush you and the nerves of your body will laugh."O'Brien Fear
"The purpose of persecution is persecution."O'Brien War
"Presumably there could be no such thing as a woman who did not understand."Winston Smith Relationships
"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible."O'Brien Politics
"I enjoyed it. I was glad when they failed."Julia Courage
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."Winston Smith Relationships
"How does one man assert his power over another? By making him suffer."O'Brien Power
"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else."O'Brien Truth
"You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."O'Brien Wisdom
"We are the dead."Julia Death
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power."O'Brien Power
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."Winston Smith Freedom
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together in new shapes of your own choosing."O'Brien Power
"Do you see, Winston, that it is all perfectly in order? Do you see, that everything is all right?"O'Brien Power