In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.
The day of individual happiness has passed.
If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms.
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.
I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.
I got cat class and I got cat style