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.

It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

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.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.