The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.