Will you understand, Winston, that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands uncured? We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]

Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part 3, ch. 4 (1949)