United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.
. . . a man does not die for business, but for ideals.
If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms.
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.
There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life "outside" the story changes the story.
Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.