“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 a dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”

George Orwell

1903-1950

An excerpt from “1984,” II, 3

*source: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations