"To enforce the lies of the present, it is necessary to erase the truths of the past."
— George Orwell

January 1, 1970

Quote Details

Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Added on April 10, 2026
Unverified quote
0 likes
George Orwell
Original Language: English

Sources

Attributed to Orwell by Keith Olbermann on MSNBC (27 September 2006), this seems to be a paraphrase of some of the statements in Nineteen Eighty-Four.