The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.