Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.