Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.