The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.