...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

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

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.