Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

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.

How could he try to get Sandi to reveal her true colors when she was a rainbow?

It's a hard thing to risk what you know and are sure of, just for the possibility of something better. Even when it's a pretty strong possibility, and something that's a whole lot better.

When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.

I am a man of peace God knows how I love peace but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.

Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.

I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

Only reverence can restrain violence - reverence for human life and the environment.