George Orwell Quotes About History
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The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.
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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
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Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.
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England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.
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History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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