Relevant Quote
"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. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
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. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
George Orwell - 1984
