When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Never use a long word where a short one will do.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.