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Autobiography and memoir1 quote
The great masses of the people...more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one. — Adolf Hitler · 1925Dystopian fiction1 quote
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. — George Orwell · 1949Political literature1 quote
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist. — Hannah Arendt · 1951