George Orwell quotes about memory & the past

The others said of Squealer that he could turn black into white.

Bravery is not enough. Loyalty and obedience are more important.

Are you certain that this is not something that you have dreamed, comrades? Have you any record of such a resolution? Is it written down anywhere?

That is our victory.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

A feeling of security, even when they weren't secure. More exactly, it was a feeling of continuity.

The phrase "Great War", when it occurs in the earlier essays, refers to the war of 1914-18. It still seemed great in those days.

The year is 1910—or 1940, but it is all the same.

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.