If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

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.

There's no reason to think we're going to stop loving each other, ' he said. 'And there's every reason to think that we won't.

I'd do anything for you, Tessa. I know you don't realize that now, but you will.

Do what makes you happy. Keep it simple. Do the research. Work hard. Look ahead.

I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.

I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

You have the possibility to give light a dimension in time.

I'm gonna drive until my buddies can't lift me in the car, and I'll get some younger buddies if I need to.

So many pleasing episodes of one's life are spoiled by shouting. You never heard of an unhappy marriage unless the neighbors have heard it first.

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.