A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

False leaders create followers by lying.

And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.

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

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.

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

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

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

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

No man should be angry with what is true.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

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

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

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.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

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