Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

The only thing for which we can combine is the underlying ideal of Socialism; justice and liberty. But it is hardly strong enough to call this ideal underlying. It is almost completely forgotten. It has been buried beneath layer after layer of doctnaire priggishness, party squabbles and half-backed progressivism until it is like a diamond hidden under a monition of dung. The job of the Socialist is to get it out again. Justice and liberty! Those are the words that have got to ring like a bugle across the world.