People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

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

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.