“History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
Source: 1984
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English author and journalist 1903–1950Related quotes
“What’s the point of history, if it has nothing to say to the present?”
Source: Natural History (2003), Chapter 5 “Ancient History” (p. 56)
The Opening to the Future http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/ag/legacy/2011/01/20/06-08-1964.pdf (1964)
Context: To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident. I observe regretfully that in politics, however, it can be heresy. It can be denounced as radicalism, or branded as subversion. There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. It hardly seems necessary to point out in California - of all States -- that change, although it involves risks, is the law of life.
Speech at the XIIIth Party Congress (May 1924)
“Nothing exists except through language.”
Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores in Understanding Computers and Cognition : A New Foundation for Design (1986)
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Three Roads to Quantum Gravity (2000)
Source: (1940), XVIII