| | "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." |
| | "Big Brother is watching you." |
| | "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." |
| | "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." |
| | "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." |
| | "The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in." |
| | "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." |
| | "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!" |
| | "Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull." |
| | "Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time." |
| | "If all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth." |
| | "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." |
| | "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they can not become conscious." |
| | "If there is hope... it lies in the proles." |
| | "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." |
| | "He wondered, as he had many times wondered before, whether he himself was a lunatic. Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one." |
| | "Life is moment-to-moment struggle against hunger, or cold, or sleeplessness-against a sour stomach or an aching tooth." |
| | "At the sight of words I love you the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid." |
| | "The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, 'just to keep people frightened'." |
| | "The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc." |
| | "There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad." |
| | "The birds sang, the proles sang. The Party did not sing." |
| | "When war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded." |
| | "Sanity is not statistical." |
| | "I hated the sight of you. I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards. Two weeks ago I thought seriously of smashing your head in with a cobble stone." |
| | "Power is not a means; it is an end." |
| | "The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred." |
| | "Somehow you will fail. Something will defeat you. Life will defeat you." |
| | "He had not stopped loving her; his feelings toward her had remained the same." |
| | "You are a difficult case. But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you." |
| | "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." |
| | "To die hating them, that was freedom." |
| | "But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother." |