We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

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.