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Present Quotes by George Orwell
- 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…
- Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed,…
- It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently -…
- Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.
- Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
- 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…
- I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle…
- Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always…
- He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
More Present Quotes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — 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
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. — Roger Babson
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon