The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

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