For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

That is gold which is worth gold.

I promised each and every Hulkamaniac when I went to that great battlefield in the sky I would bring the WWF title with me.

I just want to be a good friend to people, that's all.

In my hometown, the sky seemed endless . . . but there was nothing to see.