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

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.

The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.