It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.