1984

• 'If you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself'
• 'The inner heart... remained impregnable'
• 'The proles are not human beings'
• 'Thought police'
• 'He was outside with the crowds, cheering himself deaf'
• 'Two and two make five'
• 'Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious'
• 'If there is hope, it must lie in the proles'
• 'You must love Big Brother. It is not enough to obey him: you must love him'
• 'There is no way in which the Party can be overthrown. The rule of the Party is forever'
• 'The essential structure of society has never altered'
• 'Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull'
• 'Impossible to be sure whether O'Brien was a friend or an enemy'
• 'Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible'
• 'We are alone'
• 'The instrument could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely'
• 'Four telescreens, one in each wall'
• 'Big Brother is watching you'
• 'No way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment'
• 'Privacy, he said, was a very valuable thing'
• 'If I confess, they'll shoot you, and if I refuse to confess, they'll shoot you just you just the same'
• 'He would use the razor blade'
• 'They can make you say anything... but they can't make you believe it'
• 'All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the state'
• 'Forced labour camps'
• 'Slavery is freedom'
• 'The worst thing in the world'
• 'Hate week'
• 'Two minutes hate'
• 'Down with Big Brother'
• 'He saw that it was a human hand severed at the wrist, he kicked the thing into the gutter'
• 'You want it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer'
• 'All you care about is yourself'
• 'Syme will be vaporized. He is too intelligent... speaks too plainly'
• 'Do it to Julia'
• 'In a lucid moment Winston found that he was shouting with the others'
• 'People simply disappeared'
• 'We are the dead'
• 'By lack of understanding they remained sane'
• 'We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness'