I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.

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.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Everything you said should be true but not everything true should be said.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.