The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.

The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission;he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not.

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.