You are prepared to give your lives?’
Yes.’‘You are prepared to commit murder?’‘ Yes.’‘To commit acts of sabotage which may cause the death of hundreds of innocent people? ’‘Yes.’‘ To betray your country to foreign powers? ’‘Yes.’‘ You are prepared to cheat, to forge, to blackmail, to corrupt the minds of children, to distribute habit-forming drugs, to encourage prostitution, to disseminate venereal diseases—to do anything which is likely to cause demoral-ization and weaken the power of the Party?’ ‘Yes.’‘If, for example, it would somehow serve our interests to throw sulphuric acid in a child’s face—are you prepared to do that? ’‘Yes.’‘ You are prepared to lose your identity and live out the rest of your life as a waiter or a dock-worker? ’‘Yes.’‘You are prepared to commit suicide, if and when we or-der you to do so?’‘Yes.’‘You are prepared, the two of you, to separate and never see one another again?’‘No!’ broke in Julia
