“Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.”

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.

Sanity is not statistical.

It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

I really like brunettes.

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

Some women take up the law and become lawyers. Other women lay down the law and become wives.

One is not righteous who does much, but the one who, without work, believes much in Christ. The law says, ‘Do this,’ and it is never done. Grace says, ‘Believe in this,’ and everything is already done.

With love, there are so many layers to it that you can write all day about it. It’s not just heartbreak or falling in love; there’s so many different ways to look at it.