Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

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.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

The more I study science the more I believe in God.

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.

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

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

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.