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 … - George Orwell

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” — which he had adopted as his personal motto.

Ah, the poverty, the shortness the disappointment of human joy! For in reality car en realite, what is the duration of the supreme moment of love? It is nothing, an instant, a second perhaps. A second of ecstasy, and after that- dust, ashes, nothingness.

It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a baby at 50 and middle-aged at seventy-five, it is natural that anyone who has not actually been disgraced should feel that he still has a future.