Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation

If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

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

The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.