"أوبراين: "كيف يؤكد إنسان سلطته على إنسان آخر يا وينستون ؟" قال وينستون بعد تفكير: "يجعله يقاسي الألم" رد أوبراين: "أصبت فيما تقول. بتعريضه للألم , ف… - George Orwell

Having defeated your enemy you have to choose (unless you want another war within a generation) between exterminating him and treating him generously.

And once, in spite of the men who gripped him by each shoulder, he stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path. It is curious, but till that moment I had never realised what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, I saw the mystery, the unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short when it is in full tide. This man was not dying, he was alive just as we were alive. All the organs of his body were working – bowels digesting food, skin renewing itself, nails growing, tissues forming – all toiling away in solemn foolery. His nails would still be growing when he stood on the drop, when he was falling through the air with a tenth of a second to live. His eyes saw the yellow gravel and the grey walls, and his brain still remembered, foresaw, reasoned – reasoned even about puddles. He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of us would be gone – one mind less, one world less.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.