Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.

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

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.