He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder.

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.