I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

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.

They lived off each other's hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

I've been doing a lot of drugs in the last few weeks and drinking less, and I feel much better.

We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.

I don't think there's such a thing as the greatest of all time or the greatest in the world.

I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.

I like roles that people don't recognize me in.

Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.