“ Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. ”

“ I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. ”

“ All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ”

“ The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. ”

“ Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ”

“ Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. ”

“ Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ”

“ We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. ”

“ Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. ”

“ War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. ”