Jack

“Winston shrank back upon the bed. Whatever he said, the swift answer crushed him like a bludgeon. And yet he knew, he knew that he was in the right. The belief that nothing exists outside your own mind-surely there had to be some way of demonstrating that it was false? Had it not been exposed long ago as a fallacy? ...A faint smile twitched the corners of O'Brien's mouth as he looked down at him.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“You don’t talk about God as a hypothesis. You think you’ve cornered the truth, so I point out that you may have missed a thing or two. But if you ask, I’m happy to tell you: I can’t be sure that I’m right.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“You can whisper, and people will still hear thunder.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll