There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them.