Politics Quotes

Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.

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"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake."
Goldstein
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"Some kinds of loyalty are above morality."
O'Brien
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"Until they become conscious they will never rebel."
Goldstein
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"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."
O'Brien
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"Obedience is not enough. You must love Big Brother."
O'Brien
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"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others."
O'Brien
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"He loved Big Brother."
Winston Smith
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"The Party exists for power. It has no interest in the wellbeing of human beings."
O'Brien
O
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake."
O'Brien
O
"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."
O'Brien
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"Ingsoc, the principles of which are set out in the Book, really means doing the opposite of what it says."
Syme
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"The lower classes will accept serfdom if they are granted material sufficiency and entertainment."
O'Brien
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"The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but in perpetuating itself."
O'Brien
O
"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."
O'Brien
O
"We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them."
O'Brien
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"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible."
O'Brien
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"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."
O'Brien
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"The Party controls all records, and we control all memory."
O'Brien
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"It is our custom to destroy old documents and replace them with new ones."
Winston Smith
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"The Brotherhood cannot be wiped out because it does not exist."
O'Brien
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"The proles are not going to revolt, they will never become conscious, because they cannot be allowed to see newspapers or listen to radio or travel."
Syme
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"The proles have stayed sub-human because the Party wishes them to stay sub-human."
O'Brien
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"Obedience is not enough. You must also hate what the Party tells you to hate."
O'Brien
O
"The intention of all conditioning is that by the time you are ready to make up your own mind, you won't want to."
O'Brien
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"The revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
Syme
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"It is intolerable to us that an errand boy should earn nearly as much as a head of a department."
O'Brien
O
"The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself."
O'Brien
O
"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."
O'Brien
O
"The old civilizations claimed that they were based on love or justice. Ours is based upon hatred."
O'Brien
O
"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter."
O'Brien