War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

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.

If you want to speak to someone you cannot touch, see, or hear, the voice of love will transmit with or without a phone. It crosses all borders and travels through time and walls.

What's the use in prolonging life if you don't do anything with it?

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace making the best of circumstances.

The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.

If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.

When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on.

If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.