1984

"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, the purpose of power is power."

"It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage."

"To be a part of the system you must understand the system. To overthrow the system, you must become the system."

"Our power is not based on our capacity to inflict pain. It is based on our capacity to inflict despair."

"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it."

"Nothing was more important than the crushing of your human individuality."

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

"The Party could not be overthrown from the outside. It had to be destroyed from within."

"Human nature is not constant. It varies from age to age and from society to society."

"Your countenance betrays you, Winston. An expression of pain was quite evident."

"For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works?"

"We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them."

"The terrible thing about the Party is not that it is wicked—its sin is that it is hollow."

"Power is tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."

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

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

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

"Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else."

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

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel."

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

"Two plus two make five."

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

"It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world."

"Consciousness, as we understand it, is incompatible with the Party's needs."

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