The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

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.

Spirituality gives strength of spirit.

I’ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans.

Don't expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example.

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

God is always working through you; the important thing is to become conscious and co-operate.

Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!

I don't like losing money. I don't go gamble. Because I don't want to lose any money. I didn't grow up with any money and I'm not going to go gamble and lose money.