Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

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.