2 years ago in Quotes
Lies by their very nature have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history.
Tagsrevisionism
 5 years ago in Quotes
[3 letter agencies] weren't able to spy in bulk when communication was primarily offline, and they won't when it's primarily encrypted.

Don't let them frame the brief, anomalous period when they could listen in on everyone, as 'normal'.
 8 years ago in Quotes
The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits 'atrocities' but that it attacks the concept of objective truth; it claims to control the past as well as the future.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
Every nationalist is haunted by the belief that the past can be altered. He spends part of his time in a fantasy world in which things happen as they should — in which, for example, the Spanish Armada was a success or the Russian Revolution was crushed in 1918 — and he will transfer fragments of this world to the history books whenever possible. Much of the propagandist writing of our time amounts to plain forgery. Material facts are suppressed, dates altered, quotations removed from their context and doctored so as to change their meaning. Events which it is felt ought not to have happened are left unmentioned and ultimately denied.
"Notes on Nationalism"
 1 decade ago in Quotes
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
"The Prevention of Literature" (1946)