1984 by George Orwell. Quotes II

-Were these people able to treat you as an inferior, simply because they were rich and you were poor?
-The hunting-down and destruction of books had been done with the same thoroughness in the prole quarters as everywhere else.
-Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets, anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.
-The news is all lies anyway.
-By lack of understanding they remained sane.
-Confession is not betrayal. Only feelings matter.
-If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.
-They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done, or said, or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.
-Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
-If you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you are not mad.
-Sanity is not statistical.
-The people under the sky were also very much the same.
-If there was hope, it lay in the proles.
-Whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth.
-Perhaps, one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
-It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be.
-You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.
-The Party seeks power for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, only power, pure power.
-Power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.
-Power is power over human beings. Over the body, but above all, over the mind.
-Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.
-Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
-If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
-It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.
-Life will defeat you.
-It is one of the most characteristic and destructive developments of our own society that man, becoming more and more of an instrument, transforms reality more and more into something relative to his own interests and functions.