It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.