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

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.

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.

...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.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall be given a square deal.

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.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles in the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.”

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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

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.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.