There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.