"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
George Orwell, 1984
A few more: "If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?’"
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth."
That and Animal Farm were required reading when I grew up. Before Common Core. And before the Franklin School could do too much damage educational system. Also recommended is Behold a Pale Horse, the road to serfdom, The Art of War, Atlas Shrugged and heinlein's Foundation trilogy. I threw that last one is because it helped me realize history does repeat itself.