Journalism at its best and most effective is education. Apparently people would not learn for themselves, nor from others.

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

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

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.

War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.