Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

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.