One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth.

There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.