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George Orwell Quotes

George Orwell quotes about past

British Author, Writer June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950

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George Orwell quote: "The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own..."
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. George Orwell
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened -- that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. George Orwell
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon."
The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. George Orwell
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable? what then? George Orwell
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact. George Orwell
Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as "the truth" exists. […] The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, "It never happened"—well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five—well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs […] George Orwell
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. George Orwell
War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to... George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct..."
The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "If both the past and the external world exist only in the..."
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "Those who control the present, control the past and those who..."
Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future. George Orwell
George Orwell quote: "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the..."
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell
The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. George Orwell

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