A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.

The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out of the window; bandaged forearms made the Red Salute. It was like an allegorical picture of war; the trainload of fresh men gliding proudly up the line, the maimed men sliding slowly down, and all the while the guns on the open trucks making one's heart leap as guns always do, and reviving that pernicious feeling, so difficult to get rid of, that war *is* glorious after all.