Quotes On Other

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes…

from 1984:

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe that the past is unalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the though of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

It was true that he had been the enemy of the Party, and in the eyes of the Party there was no distinction between the thought and the deed.