A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces.

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside