imagining that there is something called human nature
which will be outraged by what we do and will turn
against us. But we create human nature. We do not
not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long
as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert
him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him.
| — | O’Brien, Inner Party member in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell (via emptyblueprints) |




