The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

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

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.