When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

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

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.