Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.