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1  Power is not a means, it is an end.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
2  We shall be utterly without power of any kind.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
3  In practice no one power ever controls the whole of the disputed area.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
4  For a moment he seemed even to have been deprived of the power of speech.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
5  Power over matter--external reality, as you would call it--is not important.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
6  In so far as the war has a direct economic purpose, it is a war for labour power.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
7  Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
8  For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with the Power to learn from past mistakes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
9  He might have silenced the dark-haired girl if only he had acted quickly enough: but precisely because of the extremity of his danger he had lost the power to act.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
10  It was curious that he seemed not merely to have lost the power of expressing himself, but even to have forgotten what it was that he had originally intended to say.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
11  The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the same time robbing you of all power over the material world.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
12  The self-satisfied sheep-like face on the screen, and the terrifying power of the Eurasian army behind it, were too much to be borne: besides, the sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and anger automatically.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
13  His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
14  Whichever power controls equatorial Africa, or the countries of the Middle East, or Southern India, or the Indonesian Archipelago, disposes also of the bodies of scores or hundreds of millions of ill-paid and hard-working coolies.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
15  But in the same moment, drawing a deep sigh of relief from everybody, the hostile figure melted into the face of Big Brother, black-haired, black-moustachio'd, full of power and mysterious calm, and so vast that it almost filled up the screen.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
16  He saw himself standing there in the dim lamplight, with the smell of bugs and cheap scent in his nostrils, and in his heart a feeling of defeat and resentment which even at that moment was mixed up with the thought of Katharine's white body, frozen for ever by the hypnotic power of the Party.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
17  At those moments his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia, and Goldstein, in spite of his isolation, his helplessness, and the doubt that hung about his very existence, seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
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