<p>“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happenedthat, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.” </p>
<p>“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposedif all records told the same talethen the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’” </p>
<p>1984</p>