Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

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

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.

Customers must recognize that you stand for something.

I cant control everything, and I dont need to

Dreaming the dream of God is not for Cowards.

And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

Travel is a fools paradise.

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.