“Remember that forgiveness too is a power.
To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power” Offred THMT
“It’s difficult for me to believe I have power over him, of any sort,
but I do; although it’s of an equivocal kind” Offred THMT
“If it’s a story I’m telling,
then I have control over the ending” - p.45 THMT
“I move my hips a little…
I enjoy the power.” Chapter 4 THMT
“They are
defeated women.” Chapter 8 THMT
“The real power,…
is not power over things, but over men” – O’B 1984
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.
We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.” O’B 1984
“‘We are the priests of power,'
he said. 'God is power.’“ O’B 1984
“We know that no one ever seizes power
with the intention of relinquishing it.” 1984
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them
together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” 1984