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Past Quotes by George Orwell
- The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.
- 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…
- The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened…
- A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible.…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a…
- 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…
- The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out…
- 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…
- The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.
- 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.…
- If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?
- For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage.…
- In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings…
- The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
- Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes…
- He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.
- The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
- He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
More Past Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — 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
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — 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
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach