Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

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.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

The difficult is what takes a little time. The impossible is what takes a little longer.

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

I don't know the difference between working and not working.

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

Everything that lives, does so under the categorical condition of decisively interfering in the life of someone else.

Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.