Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.