Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.