1984

"The Party is immortal and the individual is ephemeral."

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

"The worst thing in the world varies from individual to individual."

"Rebellion meant a ecstatic acceptance of slavery."

"They can torture you, they can kill you, but they cannot change your heart unless you let them."

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

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

"The Party controls all records, and we control all memory."

"Alone—free—the human being is always defeated."

"The past is whatever the Party says it is."

"He loved Big Brother."

"Do not imagine that you will save yourself, Winston. You did know what you were setting yourself up for."

"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."

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

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake."

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

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

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

"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 all necessary?"

"The proles, the workers, were still beneath the surface of surveillance."

"What you must understand is that we desire power not for its own sake, but as a means of imposing a desired order on the world."

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

"The Party exists for power. It has no interest in the wellbeing of human beings."

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

"Rebellion against the Party was an act of despair."

"Sometimes they are five fingers, sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once."

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

"Struggle against Big Brother is impossible."

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