The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the arena on such and such a date. How forlorn its faded colours looked. Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays - for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists.