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In his novel ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’ George Orwell’s character O’Brien defined ‘power’: “The ability to make others suffer.”

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture IS torture.
The object of power IS power. Now, do you begin to understand me?"

---- George Orwell, "1984", p. 217 (Pocket Books edition)