"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
— George Orwell
The Most Effective Way To Destroy
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
About this quote
This quote does not appear in Nineteen Eighty-Four or any other verified Orwell text. The Orwell Society has been unable to locate it in his writings, and Snopes has rated the attribution false. The sentiment is genuinely consistent with themes Orwell explored — Winston Smith's central act of rebellion in Nineteen Eighty-Four is writing in a diary to preserve his own memory against the Party's historical falsifications — but the specific wording appears to be a modern paraphrase that became detached from its origin.
Source
Attributed, based on themes in Nineteen Eighty-Four
