Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.