Quotes

Out of constables we have made grandees, idiots have shared out the honours, thieves are making rich men for us, dark souls have called themselves patriots.

Everyone has the right to say what he thinks, but there is no law that forces anyone to listen.

Every usurer and scoundrel could buy himself, for a few pennies, the title of ‘great patriot of the people’.

There were many liberal laws, and no freedom at all.

War propaganda comes down, in the end, to substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Compassion for all living beings is the surest guarantee of right moral conduct.