1984

"Always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler."

"Do you understand, Winston, that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands uncured?"

"The paperweight is the room that you love."

"You are a slow learner, Winston."

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

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

"Orderly, you are an orderly man."

"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."

"Do you see, Winston, that it is all a game? Mind control, it is all just a game."

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

"We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull."

"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?"

"You are a flaw in the pattern, Winston. You are a stain that must be wiped out."

"To die hating them, that was freedom."

"The Party is not interested in the good of others; it is interested solely in power."

"The new Oceania does not and will not exist in any of our records until we choose that it shall."

"We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so he resists us because we destroy him."

"The desire for a full human life brings the desire for death."

"We are destroying words—scores of them, hundreds of them every day."

"You will learn by degrees, Winston. You are a long way from the end of the process."

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

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

"The Object of torture is torture. The Object of power is power."

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

"The Party is not interested in perpetuating its blood but in perpetuating itself as such."

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

"Do you understand, Winston, that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands alive?"

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

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