They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.