People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it.

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 choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

We sit in silence for a minute. Thinking about the freedom we don't have and the future we can't control.

Emotions embarassed her except when she sang. My dad said that was exactly why she sang.

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet reached my goal. This engagement is the necessary basis from which I plan new paintings.

I'm very competitive and if I'm not in the weight room than someone is getting better than me. I just have to stay in there and prove myself any way that I can.

My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics.