Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.