To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

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.

Your behavior is the sum total of your action and reaction to issues and people around you.

I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

Some libertarians succeed by re-inventing the wheel. Most libertarians fail by re-inventing the flat tire.

I like to take out the recycling because I actually feel like I'm doing something.

Curiosity is a self-driven motivation to explore and to learn. Learning is like... you know, you have to take your medicine. And that is what it has become. And that's unfortunate.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.