It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Category: truth
The power of accurate observation
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
The most dangerous man
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.
Doublethink
The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them … To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies — all this is indispensably necessary.
It’s dangerous to be correct
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Quiet lies
When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.
Truth
Truth is treason in the empire of lies.