"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns somersaults when there is no whip."

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

"Perhaps one of the most alarming things about totalitarianism is that it is not, as is sometimes imagined, a static tyranny, but a dynamic one."

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."

"I have a sort of belly-to-earth attitude and always have had."