"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
"Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear."
"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."
"However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing."
"In a time of universal deceit -- telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."
"We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right."
"The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good."
"In our age, there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' "
"Political language (is) designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable."
"Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy."
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
"Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings."
"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and the sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words: it is war minus the shooting."
"In the face of pain, there are no heroes."
"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
"The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better."
"No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it."
"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
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