We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

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.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

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

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.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

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.

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

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

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

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

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

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