Born enemies don't fight. Nations you would say were designed to go to war against each other by their skins, their language, their smell; always jealous of each other, always hating each other; they're not the ones who fight. You will find the real antagonists in nations fate has groomed and made ready for the same war.

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

Government defines the physical aspects of man by means of The Printed Form, so that for every man in the flesh there is an exactly corresponding man on paper.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

Everyone always dies for his country. If you have lived in it, well and wisely and actively, you die for it too.

In war-time a man is called a hero. It doesn't make him any braver, and he runs for his life. But at least it's a hero who is running away.