Nineteen Eighty-Four

• "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." (I.1)

• "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" (I.1)

• "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork." (I.1)

• "WAR IS PEACE
  FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
  IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" (I.1)

• "Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed — would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper — the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever." (I.1)

• "To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone — to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!" (I.2)

• "doubleplusungood" ( I.4)

• "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." (I.7)

• "The birds sang, the proles sang. The Party did not sing." (II.9)

• "'Does the Brotherhood exist?'
  'That, Winston, you will never know. If we choose to set you free when we have finished with you, and if you live to be ninety years old, still you will never learn whether the answer to that question is Yes or No. As long as you live it will be an unsolved riddle in your mind.'" (III.2)

• "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives." (III.3)

• "Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself." (III.3)

• "He also felt that his mother’s love for him and his awareness of her death as a tragedy belonged to a bygone age when words like love and tragedy had some real meaning just as human individuals possessed some real dignity." (III.3)

• "The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy —everything." (III.3)

• "No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends." (III.3)

• "We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. "(III.3)

• "There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always —do not forget this, Winston —always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face —for ever." (III.3)

• "Always we shall have the heretic here at our mercy, screaming with pain, broken up, contemptible —and in the end utterly penitent, saved from himself, crawling to our feet of his own accord. That is the world that we are preparing, Winston." (III.3)

• "Somehow you will fail. Something will defeat you. Life will defeat you." (III.3)

• "If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone? You are outside history, you are non-existant." (III.3)

• "I have not betrayed Julia" (III.3)

• "He had not stopped loving her; his feelings toward her had remained the same." (III.3)

• "You are a difficult case. But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you." (III.3)

• "He obeyed the Party, but he still hated the Party. In the old days he had hidden a heretical mind beneath an appearance of conformity. Now he had retreated a step further: in the mind he had surrendered, but he had hoped to keep the inner heart inviolate." (III.4)

• "To die hating them, that was freedom." (III.4)

• "'You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.'" (III.5)

• "'They can't get inside you,' she had said. But they could get inside you. 'What happens to you here is forever,' O'Brien had said. That was a true word. There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out." (III.6)

• "Under the spreading chestnut tree
  I sold you and you sold me." (III.6)

• "The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible." (Appendix)