There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

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.

Es gibt immer einen Punkt dabei, wo man nicht mehr weiß, ob man lügt oder ob das, was man erfunden hat, wahrer ist als man selber.

If people were Superior to Animals, they'd take better care of the world

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

I don't know what happens when you die. I've never been dead. I'm just interested.

Everyone should cultivate a secret garden.

The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.

As the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse.

Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as logically as possible.

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.