Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.

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

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.