You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.