He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

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.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

Modern business must have its finger continuously on the public pulse. It must understand the changes in the public mind and be prepared to interpret itself fairly and eloquently to changing opinion.

The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.

I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.

It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.