Donald Trump aims to rewrite America’s official history. George Orwell − who wrote, ‘Who controls the past controls the ...

We rounded up 85 quotes from George Orwell, below. Related ... “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” 3. “If you want to keep a ...

There’s no better example of Orwell’s warning from “1984” than “who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” And this is happening in our ...

“To enforce the lies of the present, it is necessary to erase the truths of the past.” A phrase attributed to Orwell by American ... at my Top 10 Misattributed Quotations because three of ...

had “love in their hearts” recalls one of Orwell’s quotes: “The past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.” The bureaucrat who gleefully bragged that “we’re destroying words ...

While Orwell considered colonialism a moral stain on his homeland, he was nevertheless surprisingly patriotic and, Taylor writes, “hopelessly in love with the past.” His childhood friend Cyril ...

so I would conclude that it is not a real Orwell quote. As with so many of these misquotes/misattributions, it chimes with much of Orwell's thinking — the sentiment is echoed in his writing.