Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

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

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

The universe does not favor the greedy, dishonest and evil people, even when it seems so. It helps honest, generous and virtuous people.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

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.

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

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.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

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

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