History Quotations (1 Viewer)

[SimpaticO]

I haven't posted on here for a while so I thought that I would just say hi. I don't see the harm in it. Lol. Good luck to everyone with their exams. Extension History is my last exam actually, how ironic lol!

 

[Caratacus]

"The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it. It also follows that though the past is alterable, it has never been altered in any specific instance. For when it has been recreated in whatever shape is needed at the moment, then this new version is the past, and no different past has ever existed."

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"Whoever controls the present controls the past. Whoever controls the past controls the future. "


George Orwell, 1984

More here:

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/orwell_goldstein_1984.html

& here

http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/history.html