The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.

Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.