It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.