1. “If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”
2. “The only good human being is a dead one.”
3. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
4. “Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.”
5. “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
6. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
7. “Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
8. “But if thought corrupt language, language can also corrupt thought.”
9. “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
10. “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand to do violence on their behalf.”
11. “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding.”
12. “Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, wiser than the one that comes after it.”
13. “The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
14. “We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
15. “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
