He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past.

Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.