The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

For the future. For the unborn.

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.