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"A world of fear and treachery is torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love and justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy - everything. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and women. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex intinct will be eradicated. We shall abolish the orgasm. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always - do not forget this, Winston - always there will be the intoxication of power. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever. You will accept it, welcome it, become part of it." -O'Brien, speaking to Winston (1984, George Orwell)