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 ...

Power, Orwell appreciated, allowed those who possessed it to create their own historical narrative. It also allowed those in power to silence or censor opposing narratives, quashing the possibility of ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...