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George Orwell
«Big Brother is watching you.»
«Big Brother is watching you.»
«The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.»
«Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.»
«Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.»
«If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.»
«It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.»
«This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs--to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record.»