We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.