Around the corner Quote by Peter L Masters

“In the context of 1948, 1984 seemed dreadfully convincing. But tyrants, after all, are mortal and circumstances change. Recent developments in Russia and recent…

— Aldous Huxley

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it…

— James Gleick

During the 1980s, many people mistook Thatcherism and Reaganism - actually a wild form of liberalism - for conservatism.

— Peter Hitchens

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

— Edward Heath

People talk about Thatcherism all the time. I felt it was important to record the memories of those almost written out of history who…

— Ken Loach

“WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. The Three Slogans of the Party George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four”

— Stanley Bing

“Avoidance of lunacy is an insufficient agenda." -George Will on Ronald Reagan, 3-6-1987”

— George Will

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view…

— Howard Zinn

“Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.”

— David Foster Wallace

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

— Anonymous

“Educating people is the best tool we have against forgetting (the events of the holocaust and T4). We must make sure nothing like T4…

— Ann Clare LeZotte

“Thirty years ago [written 2009], over-regulation, over-taxation, mis-regulation, statism, state corporatism, and economic folly, cosiness and regulatory capture, and a crescent ideological enemy without,…

— G.M.W. Wemyss