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

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

“ He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. ”

“ If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? ”

“ Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. ”

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

“ As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. ”

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

“ Serious sport is war minus the shooting. ”

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