Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. — 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
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought… — 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
In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If seems so it is because when you look… — 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
The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A… — 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
“Within twenty years at the most, he reflected, the huge and simple question, “Was life better before the Revolution than it is… — 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
In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and… — 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
It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened —that, surely,… — 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
