It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

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.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.

We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

We neither of us perform to strangers.

Absolutely, everyone and anyone can get involved in yoga. I've seen really small kids doing it in my yoga class, right up to elderly people doing it.

When you put good will out there, it's amazing what can be accomplished.

It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.