„History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.“

— George Orwell

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„We can only be right with and by the Party, for history has provided no other way of being in the right… And if the Party adopts a decision which one or other of us thinks unjust, he will say, just or unjust, it is my party, and I shall support the consequences of the decision to the end.“
— Leon Trotsky
„History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right…The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds.“
— H.L. Mencken
„A fine thing: suddenly to forget about one’s history, one’s past, to stop feeling that one’s present happiness is endangered by what one used to be.“
— Peter Handke