Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.

From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.