4.20 avg rating — 5,403,789 ratings

"“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” "

4.15 avg rating — 2,398,406 ratings

"“Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some.” "

3.80 avg rating — 24,112 ratings

"“Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.” "

4.08 avg rating — 24,995 ratings

"“Iselin is a man who shall forever stand guard at the door of the mind to protect the people of this great nation from facts.”"

3.82 avg rating — 68,931 ratings

"“To have enslaved America with this hocus pocus! To have captured the mind of the world's greatest nation without uttering a single word of truth! Oh, the pleasure we must be affording the most malevolent man on earth!""

4.09 avg rating — 66,498 ratings

"“And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.” "

3.77 avg rating — 12,337 ratings

""The world is ours, we are its lords, and ours it shall remain. As for the host of labor, it has been in the dirt since history began, and I read history aright. And in the dirt it shall remain so long as I and mine and those that come after us have the power. There is the word. It is the king of words—Power. Not God, not Mammon, but Power. ""

3.59 avg rating — 234,319 ratings

""A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this?-And-how many of us do know it?""

3.97 avg rating — 2,807,587 ratings

"“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.” "

4.26 avg rating — 324,154 ratings

"“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”"

3.91 avg rating — 62,883 ratings

""For generations they've been built up to worship competition and the market, productivity and economic usefulness, and the envy of their fellow men-and boom! it's all yanked out from under them. They can't participate, can't be useful any more. Their whole culture's been shot to hell.”"

3.82 avg rating — 25,994 ratings

"“Sometimes it's possible, just barely possible, to imagine a version of this world different from the existing one, a world in which there is true justice, heroic honesty, a clear perception possessed by each individual about how to treat all the others.""

4.09 avg rating — 10,467 ratings

"“America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.”"

3.63 avg rating — 2,969 ratings

""You can't make them re-believe if they don't. And in the end, however many people you kill, so long as there are some to carry on, the skepticism will grow. And you can't ever kill all the unbelievers, because, though you can search a man's pockets or his house, you can't search his mind.""

3.79 avg rating — 5,066 ratings

"“Anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the past.” "

3.80 avg rating — 42,271 ratings

"“You fight the war with guns, you fight the peace with stories.” "

4.02 avg rating — 84,295 ratings

"“Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We'll have new rules and new ways of living.""