Politics Quotes

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

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"Why are they going to disappear him?"
Yossarian
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"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power."
O'Brien
M
"All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny."
Mustapha Mond
O
"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."
O'Brien
O
"Betrayal is the highest form of loyalty to the Party."
O'Brien
E
"The government should be run by volunteers. There should be no politicians."
Eliot Rosewater
O
"The Party intends that when it is finished, loyalty will be impossible."
O'Brien
M
"You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices"
Mustapha Mond
Y
"The real problem was with the system."
Yossarian
S
"It is our custom to execute people who are dying of cancer."
Syme
M
"We sacrifice the freedom of individuals for the good of the whole."
Mustapha Mond
C
"Isn't it nice to think how the all-American culture is going to fight the world?"
Captain Beatty
C
"If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one."
Captain Beatty
C
"But you can't prove it's a democracy when it's one party."
Clarisse McClellan
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"Rebellion means a man thinks he can do something by himself."
O'Brien
O
"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."
O'Brien
O
"The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself."
O'Brien
O
"They are all ours, but in a year or two they could become dangerous."
O'Brien
S
"The revolution is betrayed"
Snowball
S
"The principles of Animalism are in danger"
Squealer
M
"The country is in peril; I'm patriotic."
Milo Minderbinder
B
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
Big Brother
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"Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter."
O'Brien
O
"The party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about."
O'Brien
S
"Four legs good, two legs bad."
Squealer
S
"Between pigs and human beings there was not, and there need not be, any conflict of interest."
Squealer
S
"Pigs are naturally suited to be leaders."
Squealer
O
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power."
O'Brien
O
"The Party is not concerned with the overt act: the thought is all we care about."
O'Brien
W
"I love Big Brother."
Winston Smith