Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. 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. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.