Power Quotes

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe."

"I was the slave of my creature, and should be for ever the slave of my passions."

"The only power I ever had was the power to say no."

"But it is in your power to deprive him of these advantages."

"She had the power to do something about it"

"It was a pleasure to burn."

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others."

"The object of power is power."

"Do you see, Winston, that it is not even necessary to use a weapon? We are not concerned with making him suffer."

"The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself."

"The Party controls all records, and we control all records and we lie with perfect confidence."

"Do you see, Winston, that it is all useless? Do you see that you are always defeated?"

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power."

"Real power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together in new shapes of your own choosing."

"There is no escape. You will always be caught."

"You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."

"I don't care. I am not interested in your suffering. I am interested only in power."

"Do you see, Winston, that it is all contained in that one word?"

"It is our custom to execute people who are dying. Did you know that, Winston?"

"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 Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power."

"The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about."

"The only real power comes through doing what others are afraid to do."

"The Party wants you to feel like a slave, like an animal who exists only by sufferance."

"Do you see, Winston, that it is not enough to obey Big Brother? You must love him."

"Do not trust your own mind. Accept what the Party tells you."

"We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."

"If the Party says two plus two equals five, then it is so."

"You must love Big Brother."

"The Party wants absolute obedience, not the obedience of mere obedience."