A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

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.

Go make your mark on the world. Be a world changer! Live bold for Christ no matter the cost.

As you step out of your comfort zone, may life embrace you back.

What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle?

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

There are very few comics that understand about exciting the crowd, and that's what I always prided myself on: giving a more confident macho attitude towards delivering material.

To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something.

My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.

By Feeling Good Throughout the Day, you Become an Instrument of Peace