Power Quotes

"I'm not going to have you disturbing the other patients."

"You must understand, these men are very sick."

"The medication is for your own good."

"You can't fight City Hall."

"She controlled everything."

"The pursuit of power corrupts the soul more surely than any other ambition."

"Do you see, Winston, that it is all perfectly in order?"

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

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

"Two and two make five."

"Sometimes they are five fingers, sometimes three, sometimes all of them at once."

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

"By making him suffer."

"Medication time. Everybody line up for medication."

"The patients aren't going anywhere. They're all mine."

"True power lies in surrender."

"They don't want us to be happy; they want us to be manageable."

"Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled."

"Do you see, Winston, that it is all perfectly in order?"

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

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."

"The Party, as I say, does not concern itself with the very low. It simply sweeps them under the carpet."

"You don't give orders here. You obey orders or you get punished. That's the only choice you have."

"Real power is achieved when the ruling power destroys the individual will to resist."

"Sanity is not statistical. I can appreciate that you are the only person who matters."

"I'm not just talking about not letting an irresponsible fool like me near the top, I'm talking about somebody with fifty thousand dollars in his checking account."

"It's them or us, and I have not lost yet."

"Control is just another illusion."

"Do you see, Winston, that it is not enough to obey the Party, you must love Big Brother."

"The only real power comes out of a gun."