The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.