They are not visible, they are not material, but every man is constantly aware of their existence. The point is that a so-called completely clean record was almost unattainable, an ideal, like absolute truth. Something negative or suspicious can always be noted down against any man alive. Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find out what it is.
- 'Cancer Ward', Alexander Sozhenitsyn

Each of us insists on being innocent at all costs, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.
- 'The Fall', Albert Camus

war is peace
freedom is slavery
ignorance is strength
- '1984', George Orwell