The fight against bad English is not frivolous.

In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave.

The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

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

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

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.