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.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

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

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

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.