I have no wish to take life, not even human life

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.

LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.

Greed runs in all men...

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Libya is a great country, a respectful country, and the Libyan people are great people.

What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.

That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.

We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds.

All nature seems at work.

This is no time to be making new enemies.