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

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.