Society and the World

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

The best fame is a writer’s fame: it’s enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough that you get interrupted when you eat.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

And that will be England gone,

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Books think for me.

Not many sounds in life … exceed in interest a knock at the door.

Not many sounds in life … exceed in interest a knock at the door.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.

Ah! que la vie est quotidienne.

Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view) consists of its attitudes towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Power without responsibility: the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

When you’re wounded and left on

Take up the White Man’s burden—

Take up the White Man’s burden—