“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.”

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.

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

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.

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

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.

Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are.

It’s a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.

Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to find out where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited by the Constitution?

In my madness I see your face in mine.

The wisdom of God is reflected in the face of the soul: she will see God as he is, and she will know as she is known.

I was bit by a dog when I was two years old, and it almost mauled my face. It almost killed and/or blinded me. I was this close to dying at two, which is terrible. I survived it, and there was no head trauma or anything like that. Honestly, it was a miracle.

Facing reality doesn’t mean we stop dreaming. We just start turning our dreams into reality.

The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?