We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf"--Opening to "My Father's Son, " attributed to George Orwell

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.

We all know in our mind what we want, but nobody know exactly what we Get.

There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

Marvellous, what ideas the young people have these days. But I don't believe a word of it.

TEAMWORK: the fuel that allows common people attain uncommon results.

Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn't even say that.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

And through our travels we get separated, never forget: In order to survive, got to learn to live with regrets.

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

It's not about what it looks like in the studio or on the runway. It's what it looks like on a real person that matters.