“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.”
More from George Orwell
“All the animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”
“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave…”
“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding…”