1984

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

"You already know the answer. Everyone knows it."

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

"The purpose of torture is torture. The purpose of power is power."

"He loved Big Brother."

"The consequences of every act are included in the act itself."

"We control matter because we control the mind."

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."

"Nothing here now. No colour in anything. They've bleached everything out."

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

"Sanity is not statistical."

"You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves."

"The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred."

"The Party exists to rule over you."

"We are the dead."

"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 pointless?"

"Do you begin to see, Winston, that it is possible to build a society in which no one will ever again experience poverty, misery, or fear?"

"We are not interested in the overt acts of disobedience, but in the crime of thoughtcrime."

"The Party never sleeps, Winston. You should remember that. It is always awake, always vigilant, always ready to punish betrayal."

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

"I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones."

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

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

"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."

"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 necessary that the Ingsoc grab power and keep it?"

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

"The choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better."

"Do not imagine, comrade, that we want to perpetuate our position for ever. There is no power that we are afraid of if only the world stood united against us."