Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.George Orwell
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Novelist and essayist · 1903 – 1950
George Orwell (born Eric Arthur Blair) was an English novelist, essayist and critic. His dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and the allegory Animal Farm made terms like 'Big Brother' and 'thoughtcrime' part of the language.
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