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

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.

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.

As an audience member, I like watching Rupert as an actor when he’s most playful. I think Rupert is really adept at comedy; I think that’s where his strength lies.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

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.