Quotes from 1984 that are Way too Real

Like a lot of people, I read 1984 by George Orwell in school and read it again this past year as the trumpeting of alternative facts were taking center stage. The thing that struck me most this second time around wasn’t “Big Brother,” or “War is Peace,” but the exhaustive altering and erasing of facts, as shown in the following 1984 quotes. What if the people in power could change the facts to suit their narrative so completely that we didn’t even know it had happened?
So, let’s start with one of the coolest opening lines ever and bear witness to this fictional society that sometimes looks a little too familiar.