Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.
By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.
Poverty is spiritual halitosis.
Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
All human relationships must be purchased with money.
As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.
If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any practical result whatsoever, you’ve beaten them.
If human equality is to be forever averted – if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently – then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.
I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!
One must choose between God and Man, and all “radicals” and “progressives”, from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.
How right the working classes are in their “materialism.” How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.
Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.
Rich people are poor people with money.
We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!
My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.
There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.