For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.
Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.
Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.
It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.