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.

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.

We do not need to use our own strength to fulfill the will of God

A metamorphosis... The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.

Change your mind and change your whole life experience.

Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.

The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.

I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars but the individual people whose lives I've touched.

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.

That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.

You made me feel less alone; you made me feel not quite so deformed, uninformed and hunchbacked.