Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?

The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.