“Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.”
“I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.”
“We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.”
“I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.”
“Politics is a blood sport.”
“Poor fellow, he suffers from files.”
“You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp.”
“The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.”
“He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.”
“Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.”
“I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.”
“Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.”
“The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.”
“It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.”
“The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.”
“I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.”
“He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle... with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.”