Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

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.

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?

I wear glasses, have a big scar, I sing loud, and I am blond. I'm sorry!

The surest way to remain a winner is to win once, and then not play any more.

Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

That should be considered long which can be decided but once.

Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.

Could rivalry be a productive system?

In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

I have certainly faced my fair share and will likely come across more. These experiences have been fuel for my music. Facing these challenges has forced me to recognize my own inner strength.