Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.