Who controls the past now controls the future._x000D_ Who controls the present now controls the past._x000D_ Who controls the past now controls the future._x000D_ Who controls the present now?
Interpretation
The way we interpret history shapes our understanding of the present and future.
This quote emphasizes the power of perspective in shaping reality. It implies that those who influence our understanding of history and current events hold significant power over societal beliefs and future directions, suggesting a cycle of control over time that hinges on the narrative constructed by the present.
In practice
In a speech about media influence, you might use this quote to highlight how narratives are shaped.
I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hijacked. Brothers and sisters, all electoral freedoms in this country are over so long as it's controlled by corporations. Brothers and sisters, we are not going to allow these streets to be taken over by the Democrats or the Republicans. Because it's all of us who have built this city, and we can tear it down unless they give us what we need.
Yes I know my enemies. They're the teachers who taught me to fight me, compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite, all of which are American dreams.
It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here? What better time than now?
I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.
When you love a city and have explored it frequently on foot, your body, not to mention your soul, gets to know the streets so well after a number of years that in a fit of melancholy, perhaps stirred by a light snow falling ever so sorrowfully, you'll discover your legs carrying you of their own accord toward one of your favourite promontories
I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.