Power Quotes

"The Party has the power to make you love what you hate."

"We have beaten you. We have broken you. You cannot resist us."

"Stability is obviously good, too. You don't object to stability, do you?"

"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."

"The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself AS A SYSTEM OF THOUGHT."

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

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

"They got to you too, didn't they?"

"A man who can't take care of his own affairs has no business being on the outside."

"She controls them with those eyes."

"I'm not saying they're not just as powerful, but they are different. It's just hard to talk about."

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

"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture."

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

"The Party is immortal; the individual is always defeated."

"We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them."

"The Party depends upon the Party members not thinking."

"We will make you happy. We will make you sane."

"The Combine controls everything around us."

"That's what makes him dangerous, his freedom."

"That's how they keep control."

"Do you see, Winston, that the Party would prefer you to make the wrong decision?"

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

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

"The aim of the Party is not the happiness of ordinary men, any more than the aim of a man is the happiness of the cells composing his body."

"The machinery's always been there, we just learned to use it better."

"That control panel's connected to something bigger than all of us."

"I'm a gambling man. A man has to have something to wager."

"The Combine is what we're all fightin', and it's a hard fight because you can't put your fingers on it."