Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

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.

A leader inspires others to dream more. The actions of a really good leader will show how to achieve that dream.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.

All these biopics and biographies and people gossiping about so-and-so's drug abuse or who's sleeping with who, it's just a bunch of nonsense.

If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.

What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

How grimy did God get when He reached down to clean you up? How grimy are you willing to get in order to be an 'imitator of God'?

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.

I'm pretty sure I ate ants in Mexico.