“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”

It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The best books are those that tell you what you know already.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.

People just assume that if you’re famous, you’re in Hollywood.

Don’t assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

Don’t be too assuming, it doesn’t get you anywhere.

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.