It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

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 mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee.

Jace looked as if she had slapped him. "Why are you determined not to believe us?" "Because she loves you," said Valentine. Clary felt the blood drain out of her face.

Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

A little adversity can't hold me down.

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.

Only a socially just country has the right to exist.

Everything is firing on all cylinders for me.

If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?