George Orwell on History
Browse 4 quotations attributed to George Orwell, catalogued under history, with dates where available.
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Attributed to George Orwell, entry #71255: "We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary."
Attributed to George Orwell, entry #29968: "is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
4 Quotes by George Orwell on History
"We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary."
"is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."
"It is sometimes a comfort to me to think that the aeroplane is changing the conditions of warfare. In the next great war, we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him."
"A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened. Then, again, every major change in policy demands a corresponding change of doctrine and a revaluation of prominent historical figures."