4:08 PM"Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you being to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imaged. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself."

— O’Brien, 1984 by George Orwell (via pink-macaroon)

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