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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

George Orwell
Time, Freedom, Future

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

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

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

George Orwell
Time, Writing, Political Language
George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

George Orwell
Wisdom, Time, Funny Life
1942 'The Art of Donald McGill'.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

George Orwell
Time, Children, Humorous
George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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