We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.