“To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.”

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.

To die hating them, that was freedom.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.

I love to watch television in Babylon, especially the news because it’s so full of corruption. I-man know there is so much corruption, there is bound to be an eruption!

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.