Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

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

We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?