Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into…

“If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.”

— George Orwell

“tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls”

— George Orwell

The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive only in…

— George Orwell

“The Dreamer awakes The shadow goes by The tale I have told you, That tale is a lie. But listen to me, Bright maiden,…

— Traditional folktale ending

He who controls the past controls the future.

— Laozi

“We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.”

— George Orwell

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

— George Orwell

The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a…

— George Orwell

But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall…

— George Orwell

The more intelligent, the less sane

— George Orwell

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by…

— George Orwell

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the…

— George Orwell

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue…

— George Orwell

The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to…

— George Orwell

And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use…

— George Orwell