What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

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 Internet is the easiest thing to get into. To be an Internet retailer, you just get that URL.

People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

I hope they change my drugs soon. Whatever I'm on isn't working.

Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...what we sow is what we reap.