Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

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

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.