A truth that’s told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.

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

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

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

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.