Weakness is strength.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.