Power Quotes

"Exterminate all the brutes!"

"He had taken a high seat amongst the devils of the land"

"He was a magnificent creature of the wilderness, an ivory god"

"The greatest power is the power to forgive"

"His ascendancy was extraordinary"

"The rules! He cheated! He dared to break the rules!"

"This is our island. It's a good island."

"Napoleon is always right."

"The expulsion is now complete."

"I found myself lumped along with Kurtz as a suspiciously gifted creature"

"He wanted no more than just power"

"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."

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

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

"He loved Big Brother."

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

"The Party is immortal; you are not. Your only duty is to surrender yourself completely to the Party."

"I hate purity. I hate goodness. I want everyone corrupt."

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

"Discipline is the conquest of oneself for a higher good—or was it just the conquest for the sake of conquest?"

"The Party has already won. Tomorrow they will have won yesterday."

"We hunt the beast with the others."

"The Chief has spoken!"

"Conch he doesn't count."

"I'm the Chief now."

"I have to keep increasing the number of missions or Headquarters will think I'm going soft."

"You're in the army now. No one is more powerful than a colonel."

"Some invisible force seemed to have suddenly come over me."

"All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz."