Power Quotes

"It was not by rearranging atoms that you could prevent him from loving Big Brother, but by rearranging his molecules."

"I had reached the summit of my ambition."

"There is no greater power than the power of love."

"The deepest principles of the World State would be jeopardized if ever I were to permit things to come to a crisis."

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

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake."

"The proles are not going to revolt, not in a thousand years or a million."

"Power is not a means, it is an end."

"Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?"

"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?"

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

"We control matter because we control the mind. We control the mind because we control the body."

"We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested in power."

"We make the future, and when we have made it we shall have unmade the past."

"I do love controlling things"

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

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

"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston? By making him suffer."

"We control life, Winston, at all its levels."

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

"You will learn by degrees, Winston. You are beneath me and within me."

"The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg - the greater part submerged"

"The World State doesn't need to be brutal; it can be gentle"

"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."

"Do you see, Winston, that it is all perfectly in order? Everything is in its place."

"The Party exists to control, and power is an end in itself."

"Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?"

"The Party has it in its power to make you happy or unhappy."

"We make the laws of nature. Nature is governed by us, not we by nature."

"The Party is not concerned with keeping the masses happy."