Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

... life falls into place only with God.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

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.