We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
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