1984

"Do you understand that even if we escape them, we are doomed? That they have got us already?"

"Perhaps they even have a word for it in Newspeak: doublethink, thoughtcrime, crimestop—but it needs a name."

"We are the dead. Our time is up. They got us long ago."

"If the Party says that it is not four but five—then four is four."

"Some brute is coming towards you, and you feel terrified. Alone, unarmed, outnumbered. There is no escape. What do you do?"

"The Party wants power for its own sake. The individual is always defeated."

"Do not assume that you will save yourself, Winston. It is our custom to save the minds that matter."

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

"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, that it is necessary that the Party should have complete control over the people's minds?"

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

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

"Do it to Julia!"

"It is our custom to execute people who are dying of cancer."

"You must love Big Brother."

"The purpose of power is power."

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

"Do you see, Winston, that it is all contained in that single word?"

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

"The human body is more delicate than it seems. The bones can break, the organs can fail."

"Thoughtcrime is a dreadful thing, old man, a very dreadful thing."

"We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend."

"I do not care what you believe in. You must learn to love Big Brother."

"There is truth and there is untruth. It is idle to find out which is which."

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

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

"The Party is immortal; you are not."

"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."