But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.