The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs