How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.