The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

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

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

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.