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

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.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Sanity is not statistical.

Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

Integrity is not a bunch of values or ethics. Integrity is the coherence between how you are, how you think, and how you act.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

The thing worth holding onto would not have let go.