The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilisation.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. After all, the chances are that those lies, or at any rate similar lies, will pass into history.
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
Those who ‘abjure’ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
