Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.