1984

"You do not escape, ever. They catch you always, in the end."

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

"The process would be very slow, but the end was always the same."

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

"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me!"

"The terrible thing, the really terrible thing, was that Julia was dead."

"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."

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

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

"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."

"They are all ours, but in a year or two they could become dangerous."

"The terrible thing about the Party is not that it is oppressive or brutal, as it is, but that it is utterly sane."

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

"Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of power as you wield it over another being."

"The brotherhood cannot be wiped out because it is not an organization in the ordinary sense. Nothing holds it together except an idea."

"Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."

"For whom, it suddenly occurred to him to wonder, was he writing this diary?"

"It does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is impossible."

"We are the dead. There is no escape."

"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture."

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."

"Rebellion means a man willing to risk his life for a simple thing."

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

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

"Power is not a means; it is an end."

"The best books are treasuries of good words and golden thoughts."

"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."