The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

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

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave.

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.