In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

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.

The two of them looked so comfortable together it made Nico glad. But it also it caused an ache in his heart – a ghostly pain, like an old war wound throbbing in bad weather.

Whether beautiful or terrible, the past is always a ruin.

With time we will all stop fighting pimples and start fighting wrinkles.

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

If your morals make you dreary depend on it they are wrong.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

I'm bad at picking heroes.

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.