Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

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.

Praying anywhere" can easily become "praying nowhere", just as "praying anytime" can easily become "praying at no time". Everything in general becomes nothing in particular".

It is sad to see people do things without putting their soul and heart into it.

Anger is a brief madness.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa.

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

We rarely do anything with on single motive.