The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

To die hating them, that was freedom.

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

Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.