No One Is Patriotic About

I Always Disagree, However, When People End Up Saying That We Can Only Combat Communism, Fascism Or What Not If We Develop An Equal Fanaticism. It Appears To Me That One Defeats The Fanatic Precisely By Not Being A Fanatic Oneself, But On The Contrary By Using One's Intelligence.

If Both The Past And The External World Exist Only In The Mind, And If The Mind Itself Is Controllable - What Then?

Within Any Important Issue, There Are Always Aspects No One Wishes To Discuss.

Progress Is Not An Illusion, It Happens, But It Is Slow And Invariably Disappointing.

In Places This Book Is A Little Over-written, Because Mr Blunden Is No More Able To Resist A Quotation Than Some People Are To Refuse A Drink.