Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

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

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

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.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

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

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.