Quotes · Skopia

4 quotes

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Autobiography and memoir

The great masses of the people...more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one.

Mein Kampf · 1925

★ 5.4

Novel · Dystopian fiction

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 3.9

For say a foolish thing enough… ... The same thing Shall pass at last for absolutely wise, And not with fools exclusively.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1856

★ 3.6

Political literature

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.

The Origins of Totalinarianism · 1951

★ 3.6