The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.