When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

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

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

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

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

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

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.

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.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

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

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

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

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

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

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

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

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.

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.