"Early in life I noted that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in the Spanish War I saw newspaper reports which did not bear the remotest relation to the facts, not even the relati…"

"The proles, if only they could become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire."

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."

"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."