Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

One must work with time and not against it.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.