Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Religion is like a pair of shoes. Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.
Man is the cruelest animal.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
I do this real moron thing, and it’s called thinking. And apparently I’m not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
When you’re born into this world, you’re given a ticket to the freak show. If you’re born in America you get a front row seat.
If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.