 He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle. |
| Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. |
| No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. |
| Poor fellow, he suffers from files. |
| The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. |
| Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born. |
| This is my truth, tell me yours. |
| The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do. |
| I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one. |
| Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee. |
| I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. |
| This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time. |
| It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world. |
| Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. |
| I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. |
| The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. |
| We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down. |
| Politics is a blood sport. |
| Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. |
| It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. |
