It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.

We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?