And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

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

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

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

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

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

Either you will control your government, or government will control you.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

It is frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

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

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

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.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

For truth is precious and divine—too rich a perl for carnal swine.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

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