“You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.”

“At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.”

“Sanity is not statistical.”

“Sanity was statistical.”

“Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.”

“There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out.”

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”