Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.