HISTORY in Classic Quotes

1  All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

2  It was not true, for example, as was claimed in the Party history books, that the Party had invented aeroplanes.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

3  It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7

4  And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed--if all records told the same tale--then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

5  History had already been rewritten, but fragments of the literature of the past survived here and there, imperfectly censored, and so long as one retained one's knowledge of Oldspeak it was possible to read them.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX

6  But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3