“He picked up the children’s history book and looked at the portrait of Big Brother which formed its frontispiece.  The hypnotic eyes gazed into his own.  It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you - something that penetrated inside your skull, battering against your brain, frightening you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses…” Pg 80

“Parsons was Winston’s fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth.  He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms - one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended. “  Pg 22

“…she had without exception the most stupid, vulgar, empty mind that he had ever encountered…there was no imbecility, absolutely none, that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her. “  Pg 66

“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week.  And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week.  Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours?  Yes, they swallowed it.  Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an animal. “  Pg 58

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake…Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power…We are different from all the oligarchies of the past…The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never that the courage to recognize their own motives.  They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they seized power unwillingly and for a limited time…We are not like that.  We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”  Pg 263

“[T]he Party…sought power because men in the mass were frail, cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves…”  Pg 262

“The new aristocracy was made up of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians. ..As compared with their opposite numbers in past ages, they were less avaricious, less tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and, above all, more conscious of what they were doing and more intent on crushing opposition.  This last difference was cardinal.  By comparison with that existing today, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and inefficient.”  Pg 205

“It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.  And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which the Times did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak - “child hero” was the phrase generally used - had overheard some compromising remark and denounced his parents to the Thought Police. “  Pg 24

“With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror.  Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. .. the worship of Big Brother - it was all a sort of glorious game to them.  All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals.”  Pg 24

“The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for service of the Party…There were even organizations such as the Junior Anti-Sex League which advocated complete celibacy for both sexes.  All children were to be begotten by artificial insemination…and brought up in public institutions.”  Pg 65

“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.”  Pg 93

“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death…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.”  Pg 34

“It might be true that the average human being was better off now than he had been before the Revolution.  The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different.”  Pg 73