Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

Appearance rules the world.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.

Ignorance never settle a question.

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

False leaders create followers by lying.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

No matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.

O beautiful for spacious skies, For Amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

You don't have to be big or well known to be great.

There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.