“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The best books are those that tell you what you know already.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.

All of what the government said is lies upon lies.

Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.