A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

Everyone wanted me to feed them that story—darkness to light, weakness to strength, broken to whole. I wanted it, too.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

The more I know of astronomy, the more I believe in God.

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind. "Ah," said Eric, "Good." "No," said Rincewind patiently. "It means time measurement." "Oh.

Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.