O'Brien We shall meet in the place were there is no darkness.
Played by Richard Burton 
1984 (1984) · 27 quotes
1984 (1984) · 27 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in 1984 (1984): in 10 of its 27 quotes
Most scenes with: Winston Smith (3)
If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
More lines from O'Brien
6 quotes O'Brien O'Brien Power is tearing human minds apart and putting them back together in new shapes of your own choosing.
O'Brien In our world, there can only be triumph and self-abasement. Everything else, we will destroy.
O'Brien You once asked me, Winston, what was in room 101. I think you know. Everyone does. The thing that is in room 101... is the worst thing in the world.
O'Brien Power is not a means, it's an end.
O'Brien The world we are preparing, Winston, is of constant victory and constant triumph. You are beginning to accept it, you'll soon welcome it, and, finally, become a part of it.
Scenes with O'Brien
3 scenes O'Brien What are your feelings towards Big Brother?
I hate him.
O'Brien You must love him. It is not enough to obey him. You must love him.
I know you'll fail. Something in this world... some spirit you will never overcome...
O'Brien What is it, this principle?
I don't know. The spirit of man.
O'Brien And do you consider yourself a man?
Yes.
O'Brien If you're a man, Winston, you're the last man. Your kind is extinct. We are the inheritors. Do you realize that you are alone? You are outside history. You unexist. Get up.
O'Brien [Winston gets up and O'Brien shows him his reflection in a mirror. Winston is disheveled and beaten]
That is the last man. If you are human, that is humanity.
O'Brien There are thought criminals who maintain that the resistance is not real. Believe me, Winston, it is very real. Perhaps you are not familiar with how it operates.
I am attentive to the news. O'Brien Indeed. Then perhaps you imagine a huge network of conspirators prepared to commit any atrocity to weaken and demoralize the order of our society. The reality is infinitely more subtle. If Goldstein himself fell into the hands of the Thought Police, he could not give them a list of his agents. Such a list does not exist. They are not an organization in the sense we know. Nothing holds it together but an idea. Individually, they cheat, forge, blackmail, corrupt children, spread disease and prostitution, in the name of spreading knowledge from generation to generation, until... in a thousand years...
