Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

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.

Beauty is fleeting. But the woman who fear God is blissful.

Somehow, grief had seemed easier to bear when the skies were dark and a cold wind kept cats and prey inside their nests.

A man who can make love with another man can also make love with the enemy.

The angel of spring the mellow-throated nightingale.

I don't want to be too stiff, because then my hands won't be as quick.

I started doing martial arts when I was a kid. I don't often get that kind of role, although I get to do it periodically, which is a lot of fun for me.

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.

Let every man look before he leaps.

I have never had time for the idea of searching. Whenever I wanted to express something, I did so without thinking of the past or the future.

Beware of being the roller / When there's nothing left to roll