When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

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.

The world may not owe you anything but you owe yourself the world!

I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years.

Pay off your student loan. Even if you don't have a job...Because when you finally get a job you're going to be one of us.

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

I grew up around the Luxembourg Gardens, so I guess that is my best memory.

Russia's inclination toward authoritarianism undoubtedly strengthened the leaders in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, as they are afraid of normal democratic procedures.

Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

When a lot of people are calling you crazy: you're either crazy, or you're onto something.