The most brilliant George Orwell quotes about the nightmare future…
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[These quotes were doing the rounds and these are the best Orwell quotes I've ever seen. Jan]
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
― George Orwell
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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