The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.

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.

The right relationship won't distract you from God. It will bring you closer to Him.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.

I believe that we are conforming to the divine order and the will of Providence when we are doing even indifferent things that belong to our condition.

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful.

I'm not very good at taking compliments. It's better than getting slapped in the face, I suppose.

I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.

I think that ties in with issues of identity as well - that sometimes there are parts of us we want to hide, and then there's other times we say, "You know what? Nope. Done hiding that part."

You know, I definitely have an inclination to work in the public sector.

But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.