While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

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

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.

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

False leaders create followers by lying.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

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