Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

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'.