Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.