If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.