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 the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture.... The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions - Стр. 29авторы: Christopher Cerf - 2003 - Страниц: 736Ограниченный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Robert Owens, George Orwell, Wilton E. Hall, William A. Miles - 1963 - Страниц: 92
...WINSTON'S face]. That was stupid, Winston — stupid. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. The object of persecution is persecution. The object...torture is torture. The object of power is power. WINSTON. You talk of power and forever, and yet you are growing old. You, too, O'Brien, must die. O'BRIEN.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1972 - Страниц: 262
...are doing," George Orwell's character in "1984" states. ". . . Power is not a means ; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to...revolution ; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship." America underwent what some regard as a revolution without bloodshed beginning in... | |
| Robert Boyers - 1987 - Страниц: 272
...establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution....torture is torture. The object of power is power." The First Circle is not an antiutopian fiction, which is to say, not a work that in order to sound... | |
| Alok Rai - 1988 - Страниц: 212
...domination is carefully rendered, but the ideology is a significant absence, a vacuous circularity: The object of persecution is persecution. The object...torture is torture. The object of power is power. (p. 269) Orwell could hardly have foreseen that he would himself, along with his legitimate 'democratic... | |
| Richard Rorty - 1989 - Страниц: 222
...reductiones ad absurdum of O'Brien's dialectical position, or else as Raymond Williams reads them. He reads "The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power" as saying that (in a phrase which Orwell had used to 12 John Strachey, "The Strangled Cry," in Twentieth... | |
| Matei Calinescu, Douwe Wessel Fokkema - 1987 - Страниц: 284
...no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to...torture is torture. The object of power is power. . . (227). The party will enact the eternally returning Dionysian drama of creation and destruction... | |
| Erika Gottlieb - 1992 - Страниц: 332
...power with the promise of fulfilling the Marxist prediction about Socialism. Of course, he knew that "one does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship" (227). Together with the tearful old prole's self-reproach,... | |
| Dennis Hume Wrong - 1980 - Страниц: 326
...no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to...torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me? Orwell's concept of 'doublethink' to know and not to know, to be... | |
| Anatol Rapoport - 1994 - Страниц: 652
...trap by posing as a sympathizer. "Power," O'Brien explains to Smith, "is not a means; it is the end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to...torture is torture. The object of power is power." Power Over People What gives people power over other people? Clausewitz says in the opening sentences... | |
| Zhengyuan Fu - 1996 - Страниц: 202
...scholars found out from their own experience in the contemporary era, that for the totalitarian state "one does not establish a dictatorship in order to...to establish the dictatorship. . . . The object of power is power" (Orwell, 1983), and "power is not a means; it is an end. And power means the capacity... | |
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