All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
The totalitarian states can do great things, but...they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or laborer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
Those who ‘abjure’ violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.
