1984 is a novel by author George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) that focuses on the evils of totalitarianism. The story line follows Winston Smith as he encounters problems when he and others begin to challenge the regime of "Big Brother" by falling in love with a woman, Julia. The book has been adapted for the big screen two times, in 1956 and 1984.

• Winston Smith - The novel's protagonist
• Julia - Winston's lover
• Big Brother - The dictator of Oceania in the year 1984
• O'Brien - A government agent who deceives Winston and Julia into believing that he is a member of the resistance.
• Emmanuel Goldstein - A former top member and now opposer of the ruling Party

• Wikiquote: 1984 Quotes
  • "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU." -(I.1)

• • "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER." -I.1

• • "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." -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." -I.1

• • "Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they can not become conscious." -I.6

• • "Sanity is not statistical." -II.9

• • "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

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

• SparkNotes: 1984 Important Quotes Explained
  • "WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." -Book 1, Ch. 1

• • "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." -Book 3, Ch. 2

• • "And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested." -Book 1, Ch. VIII

• IMDb: 1984 Film - Memorable Quotes
  • "If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever." -O'Brien

• • "Beautiful thing, the destruction of words." -Syme

• • "We are the dead." -Winston Smith

• • "Power is tearing human minds apart and putting them back together in new shapes of your own choosing." -O'Brien

• • "Thoughtcrime is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself." -Winston Smith

• • "Power is not a means, it's an end." -O'Brien

• Fan Site: 1984 Quotes
  • "If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death." -pg 32

• • "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'" —pg 32

• • "If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated." —pg 60

• • "It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same—everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world." —pg 181