Character: O'brien

Winston, how does one man assert his power over others?
After all, he thought.
- Forcing them to suffer, he said.
- Absolutely. Forcing him to suffer. Obedience is not enough. If the person is not suffering, how can you be sure that he obeying your will and not his own? The power is to hurt and humiliate. To tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in this form in which you want.

We matter because we won the consciousness. Reality is inside the skull.

Slavery is freedom. Alone - free - the man always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, and this is his biggest flaw. But if he can completely without the rest to submit, if he could abandon himself if he could dissolve the party so that he will become a party, then he is omnipotent and immortal.

Power is not a means; it is an end. Does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. The purpose of repression - repression. The purpose of torture is torture. The purpose of power is power.

Only the disciplined mind can see reality, Winston. Reality for you seems to be something objective, external, existing in its own right. The nature of reality appears to be self-evident. When, foolishly, you think that you see something, you think everyone else sees the same thing. But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

- Does the past exist concretely, in space? Is there somewhere such a place, a world of solid objects, where the past is still happening?
- No.
- Then, where it exists, if it exists?
- In the documents. It was written.
- In the documents. And...?
- In the mind. In human memories.
- In memory. Very good. We, the party, control all the documents and manage the memories. Then we control the past, right?

Did you not understand that the death of the individual is not death? The party is immortal.