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Future Quotes by George Orwell
- England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change…
- Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the…
- If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
- Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own…
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
- The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
- 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.…
- There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston—…
- To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just…
- To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live…
- He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster.…
- How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to…
- You were the dead; theirs was the future.
- For the future. For the unborn.
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of…
- How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper,…
- We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of…
- He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.
- For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of…
- He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
More Future Quotes
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
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- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but… — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba