No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?