Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.