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Totalitarian regime controls every aspect of citizens' lives from "summary" of 1984 [Nineteen Eighty-four] by George Orwell
A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone. His friendships, his relaxations, his behaviour towards his wife and children, the expression of his face when he is alone, the words he mutters in sleep, even the characteristic movements of his body, are all jealously scrutinized. Not only any actual misdemeanour, but any eccentricity, however small, any change of habits, any nervous mannerism that could possibly be the symptom of an inner struggle, is certain to be detected. He has no freedom of choice in any direction whatever. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He would have committed - would have thought, even before he could commit it. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Power is not a means; it is an end. 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? The individual only has power in so ...
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