Every truth is simple – Is that not doubly a lie?[“Alle Wahrheit ist einfach.” – Ist das nicht zwiefach eine Lüge?]
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.[Brug ikke det udenlandske ord: idealer. Vi har jo det gode norske ord: løgne.]
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.[Die Lüge ist Wegwerfung und gleichsam Vernichtung seiner Menschenwürde.]
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.[Sanza dubbio tal proportione è dalla verità alla bugia, qual è dalla luce alle tenebre.]
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.
Ask no questions and you’ll hear no lies.
Anything’s better than lying and deceit.[Все лучше лжи и обмана!]
Anyone would be lying if they said they didn’t get lonely at times.
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth.
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak with authority.[Tебе поверят, хоть лги, только говори с авторитетом.]
