You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

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.

I’m a creature of the night.” Slitted eyes peered at her suspiciously. “Good God, you’re not a morning person, are you?

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a movie star would be a very dangerous place.

Beware! Freedom of speech also includes the freedom to be misunderstood.

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

I stood up for myself as I always have done. Nobody has ever told Coco Chanel what to think.

Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.

It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.

in our ordinaryness we are most bizarre.

Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare 'entertainment.' It's not 'entertainment.' It's culture.