To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
Big brother is watching you.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
Living well is the best revenge.
But I don't give up; I forget why not.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. when there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.