Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred and always stronger than internationalism.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
No advance in wealth no softening of manners no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred jealousy boastfulness disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words it is war minus the shooting.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred jealousy boastfulness disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words it is war minus the shooting.
If you want a vision of the future imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues and politics itself is a mass of lies evasions folly hatred and schizophrenia.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.