“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this.
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the
good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power
means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of
the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who
resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the
Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had
the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even
believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and
that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be
free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with
the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does
not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the
revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is
persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now
you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
― George Orwell, 1984
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"Now you begin to understand me."
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