England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

the mute protest in your own bones