Quotes on history

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”

George Orwell
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“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”

George Orwell
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“Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

George Orwell
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

George Orwell
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“When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.”

George Orwell
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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

George Orwell
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“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.”

George Orwell
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“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

George Orwell
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“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

George Orwell
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“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

George Orwell
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