“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.

Rich people are poor people with money.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it’s room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!

The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves – and be free.

I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I’m competing with is me.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.