the mute protest in your own bones

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.

Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.

If you worry about what might be and wonder what might have been you will ignore what is.

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.

Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

I am proud to do so for I know that by supporting George W. Bush, I serve my country well.

I had been attracted by Malcolm X when he was still a member of the Nation of Islam.