“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. /2
"We are different from 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. /3
"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. /4
"They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. /5
"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. /6
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― Scott Morrison, 2020 /7
― Scott Morrison, 2020 /7
Sorry, I mean, Eric Arthur Blair,
or George Orwell, 1984. <end>
or George Orwell, 1984. <end>
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