His manner changed and he said more harshly: 'And you consider yourself morally superior to us, with our lies and our cruelty?' 'Yes, I consider myself superior.'
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O'Brien did not speak. Two other voices were speaking. After a moment Winston recognized one of them as his own. It was a sound-track of the conversation he had had with O'Brien, on the night when he had enrolled himself in the Brotherhood.
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He heard himself promising to lie, to steal, to forge, to murder, to encourage drug-taking and prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases, to throw vitriol in a child's face.
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Can't blame Winston for it but he missed the retort there - he was pledging himself to do what was needed to end a regime he considered monstrous - the Party was sadistic for its own sake. Orwell likely had a dim view of revolutionaries with "higher aspirations" after Spain.
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