I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

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

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

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.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

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.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.

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.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

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

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

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.

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

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.