Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. – George Orwell
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. – George Orwell
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. – George Orwell