A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

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

It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Rich people are poor people with money.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.