and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth

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.

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

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Reality is inside the skull.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed.

When a person gives, he loves the object of his giving more -- and so love is planted and grows.

As for joy, as little as one can have of it in this life, experience shows that it is not the idle who possess it, but those who are zealous in the service of God.

I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme.

It's not a filmmaker's job to explain his technique but to tell his story the best way he can.

Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050.

You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.

Forgiveness is divine, but never pay pull price for late pizza.