[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

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.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

Every time you survive a horrible storm you start thinking that you are immortal and this is the most negative and the most dangerous part of self-confidence!

What’s the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter?

We think in generalities but we live in detail.

The gods help them who help themselves.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.

Some people are meant to fall in love with each other, but not meant to be together.

Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the big questions regarding life and the universe.

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.