People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.