In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act..

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them..

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

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

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

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

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were ….

Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear..

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

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing..

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous..

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

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in….

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..

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there..

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind..

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has b….

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

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence..

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past..