We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth