Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.