From Book 3, chapter 3 of 1984 by G. Orwell:
"
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party
seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good
of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or
long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means
you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies
of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even
those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German
Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods,
but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.
They
pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power
unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there
lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not
like that.
We know that 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 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 object
of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?"
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