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.

    George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

    1941 The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, pt.1,'England Your England'.
  • 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.

    George Orwell's review of the book "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler in "New English Weekly", March 21, 1940.
  • 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.

    George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941”
  • History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

    George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”
  • The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

  • Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19
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