Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.