From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Perhaps when the next Great War comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and re-inscribed exactly as often as was necessary.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The essential point of Nineteen Eighty-Four is just this, the danger of the ultimate and absolute power which mind can develop when… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Has it ever occurred to you,’ he said, ‘that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As Gove knows… 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of value. One could not learn history from architecture any more than… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“These new movements, of course, grew out of the old ones and tended to keep their names and pay lip-service to their… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been re-painted, every statue and street and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When I think of antiquity, the detail that frightens me is that those hundreds of millions of slaves on whose backs civilization… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons, one of which is subsidiary and, so to speak, precautionary. The subsidiary… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Thus throughout history a struggle which is the same in its main outlines recurs over and over again” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share
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… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share
