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

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

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.

False leaders create followers by lying.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

You cannot possibly have a broader basis for any government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

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

It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

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

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

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

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

No man should be angry with what is true.

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