Nineteen Eighty-Four quotes about freedom

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever.