"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus …"

"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."

"If you are to avoid being a slave you must be a rebel."

"It is not merely that we are not allowed to be truthful, but that we are compelled to be dishonest."

"The English are not a spiritual people. They are a practical people."