Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

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.

Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.

There ain't much to being a ballplayer, if you're a ballplayer.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.

I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.