So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

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.

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

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