Don’t be shamed into denouncing what you know is true.

Sleep that masters all.

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.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

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

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.

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!

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

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

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

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

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

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.

Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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

To offend a strong man, tell him a lie. To offend a weak man, tell him the truth.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.