Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows, and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when vie…

: in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of 'cold war' with its neighbours.[Commonly cited as the first documented use of the phra…

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

No entanto a Inglaterra goza por algum tempo a com a certeza de ter de recomecar daqui a dez anos ou quinze anos; porque nem pode conquistar e anexar um vasto …

That man always made it a point to speak German, although he spoke English well enough. That was because he imitated Hitler to the last degree. He would say th…

Next time round Hitler will be a machine.