The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work.
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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
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It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
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It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
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Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
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Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.
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More will mean worse.
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