If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

For the future. For the unborn.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.