In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

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.

May our twilights mix togetherlike breath and breathlessness.

So much depends on our health, and we tend to take it so for granted.

I will stop at nothing to reach my objective, but only because my brakes are defective.

I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

It's fun watching people get jealous over imitation bags thinking it's real.

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

A wife is not a man's shadow or subordinate, but his other self, his "helper," in a sense which no other creature on earth can be.

Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)

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