1984

"Room 101 holds what each man most fears. What is in Room 101?"

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

"The object of power is power. How does one man assert his power over another? By making him suffer."

"Humanity is not ready for freedom, Winston. It is too fragile a thing to be handled by the unprepared."

"You are a slow learner, Winston. Sometimes I think you do not love Big Brother as well as you might."

"Do not make the mistake of thinking that the Party is afraid of you."

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

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

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

"Rebellion means a man thinks he can do something by himself."

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

"Some kinds of knowledge must not be acquired, however great the temptation."

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

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

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

"Do you see, Winston, the beauty of the system we are building? Do you see how it is invulnerable?"

"They could not stop you thinking, but they could stop you from living your thoughts."

"The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"

"We make the laws of nature."

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

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

"They would shoot me, I don't care. But you will save yourself."

"When I think of you, the smell of you, the taste of you... and I am destroyed."

"We have beaten you, Winston. We have broken you up. Can you think of a single degradation that has not happened to you?"

"The Party is immortal. You are immortal. Even after you are dead, you will be immortal."

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."

"I betrayed you under torture. I would betray you again."

"They can torture you, but they cannot change you. They can burn your body, but they cannot touch your mind."

"How often have I grasped you like this and felt that you were slipping away from me?"

"Physical facts could not be ignored. In the end the Party would announce that the earth was flat, and if it still mattered, we would have to believe it."