It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside