At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.