"He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future."

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

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"

"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."

"Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"