Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who pai… - Doris Lessing

War...strengthened the position of the armament industries...to a point...that these industries dominated the economies and therefore the governments of all the participating nations...war barbarised and lowered the already very low level of accepted conduct.

I write all these remarks with exactly the same feeling as if I were writing a letter to post into the distant past: I am so sure that everything we now take for granted is going to be utterly swept away in the next decade.

(So why write novels? Indeed, why! I suppose we have to go on living as if ...)

Anna, there's something very arrogant about insisting on the right to be right.