This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.

In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.