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> [The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-conquest/the-behavior-of-any-bureaucratic-organization-can-best-be-understood/)

[Robert Conquest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-conquest/)

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## More by Robert Conquest

> [The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-conquest/the-behavior-of-any-bureaucratic-organization-can-best-be-understood/)

[Robert Conquest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-conquest/)

> [Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-conquest/everyone-is-a-reactionary-about-subjects-he-understands/)

[Robert Conquest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-conquest/)

> [“The psychosphere, the logosphere, is permeated by concepts, ideas, verbalizations, a whole apparatus devised, or rather evolved, to form some sort of mental contact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-conquest/the-psychosphere-the-logosphere-is-permeated-by-concepts-ideas/)

[Robert Conquest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-conquest/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-conquest/the-idea-of-anti-imperialism-is-to-be-considered-on-several-grounds/)

[Robert Conquest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-conquest/)

> [You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof... Yet... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-conquest/you-made-a-point-about-proof-in-this-sort-of-history-we-do-nt-have/)

[Robert Conquest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-conquest/)

> [“Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-conquest/everyone-is-conservative-about-what-he-knows-best/)

[Robert Conquest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-conquest/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-conquest/to-congratulate-oneself-on-one-s-warm-commitment-to-the-environment/)

[Robert Conquest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-conquest/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-conquest/seven-ages-first-puking-and-mewling-then-very-pissed-off-with-your/)

[Robert Conquest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-conquest/)

> [We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-conquest/we-still-find-especially-in-parts-of-academe-the-damaging-notion-that/)

[Robert Conquest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-conquest/)

> [“As is now generally admitted, a Soviet bomb would not have been achieved for several years more but for the success of Soviet espionage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-conquest/as-is-now-generally-admitted-a-soviet-bomb-would-not-have-been/)

[Robert Conquest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-conquest/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-conquest/the-soviet-assumption-that-all-other-political-life-forms-and-beliefs/)

[Robert Conquest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-conquest/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-conquest/anthony-howard-then-editor-of-the-left-wing-new-statesman-once/)

[Robert Conquest](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-conquest/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-conquest/there-was-an-old-bastard-named-lenin-who-did-two-or-three-million-men/)

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