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November 14, 2013
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake."
We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. George Orwell - 1984 - Part 3, Chapter 3HT: Poretto
Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 14, 2013 7:53 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.