Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Why should I question the monkey when I can question the organ grinder.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Virtue is its own punishment.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.