Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

The organizing principal for any culture is War.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.