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.

"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

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

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening