Society and the World

No, painting is not made to decorate apartments. It’s an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.

Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.

Tyranny is always better organised than freedom.

Cry, the beloved country.

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the prepared mind.

Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

Hollywood money isn’t money. It’s congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

Guns aren’t lawful;

Guns aren’t lawful;

Let us sleep now.

I am the enemy you killed, my friend.

It seemed that out of battle I escaped

Whatever hope is yours,

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall;

The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;

All a poet can do today is warn.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

My subject is War, and the pity of War.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie … A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

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

Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.