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

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

The more intelligent, the less sane