A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.
And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.
If you can't find the truth right where you are, where else do you think you will find it.
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.