One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

The more intelligent, the less sane

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.