1984

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Quotes from 1984

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"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
Winston Smith Hope
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"The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better."
O'Brien Happiness
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith Freedom
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"Do you see, Winston, that the Party does not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority?"
O'Brien Power
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"Do you see any evidence of those explosions?"
Winston Smith Truth
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"The Party intends that when it is finished, loyalty will be impossible."
O'Brien Politics
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"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together in new shapes of your own choosing."
O'Brien Power
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"I love Big Brother."
Winston Smith Fear
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four."
Winston Smith Freedom
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"I do not love Big Brother."
Winston Smith Freedom
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"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake."
O'Brien Power
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"The consequences of every act are included in the act itself."
O'Brien Philosophy
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"I am glad they shot her."
Winston Smith Fear
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"They are demanding that I should consent to their arrest and execution."
Winston Smith Fear
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"Do you see, Winston, that it is all perfectly in order?"
O'Brien Power
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"We shall crush you out of existence. We shall make you perfect."
O'Brien Power
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"Almost it is upon us. We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
Winston Smith Hope
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"Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
O'Brien Power
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"The Party could not protect them in the long run. Not ultimately."
Winston Smith Hope
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"They are still held down by such things as family loyalty and physical disgust."
O'Brien Family
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"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power."
O'Brien Power
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"He loved Big Brother."
Winston Smith Power
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"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
Winston Smith Freedom
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"Do you see, Winston, that the Party does not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority?"
O'Brien Power
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"At the Ministry of Love, they teach you what love really means."
O'Brien
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"They can torture you, but they cannot break you. Unless you let them."
O'Brien Strength
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"You cannot escape from your own consciousness. The Party is your consciousness."
O'Brien
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"Hope is dangerous. The Party teaches us that hope is thoughtcrime."
O'Brien Hope
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"There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
Winston Smith Truth
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"The worst thing in the world varies from individual to individual."
O'Brien Fear