He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

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From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

George Orwell in The Prevention of Literature (1946)
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

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Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

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For a creative writer possession of the ""truth"" is less important than emotional sincerity.

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

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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

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