So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
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.
Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.