By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps.

Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed ... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.