Quote of the day

Quote of the day

What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.

Napoleon, quoted in ‘Mémorial de Sainte Hélène’ by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases (1823)


Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell, ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (1949)

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