We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
From George Orwell
To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
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?
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
Good writing is like a windowpane.
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
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