"Winston could not definitely remember a time..." - Quote by George Orwell
Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.
More by George Orwell
“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. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.”
“All human relationships must be purchased with money.”
“He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.”
More on Control
“The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.”
“Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.”
“The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.”
More on History
“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.”
“On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.”
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”