George Orwell Quotes

Power tends to get confused with repression.

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.

Powerlessness also corrupts.

Watch out for the man who talks of putting things in order. Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.

Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.

You must labor until we have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.

In 'Fifty Shades,' seemingly, Christian has all the power and control - but actually, Anastasia does.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.