“There was an old bastard named Lenin Who did two or three million men in. That's a lot to have done in But where he did one in That old bastard Stalin did ten in.” — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
“The psychosphere, the logosphere, is permeated by concepts, ideas, verbalizations, a whole apparatus devised, or rather evolved, to form some sort of mental contact… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
The Idea of Anti-imperialism is... to be considered on several grounds. First, it is traditionally pervasive in the United States, though given its most… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
“Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then sitting in… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
“As is now generally admitted, a Soviet bomb would not have been achieved for several years more but for the success of Soviet espionage… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
The Soviet assumption that all other political life-forms and beliefs were inherently and immutably hostile was the simple and central cause of that Cold… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
“Anthony Howard, then editor of the left-wing New Statesman , once pointed out that if Huey Long had only used left-wing phraseology he would… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
