The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

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 world is made of more than particles. It's made of things you can't hold in your hand, like fear, love, loss, hope, truth.

What we steadily, consciously, habitually think we are, that we tend to become.

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.

This life we have is short, so let us leave a mark for people to remember.

Human life doesn't seem to have much significance, and I don't know why.

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

If you want to hear Him say, 'Well done,' you need to do something well.

The world still hasn't seen the best of Sean Paul.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.