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

Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.

Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.