Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?

Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.