The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

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

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

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