“As is now generally admitted, a Soviet bomb would not have been achieved for several years more but for the success of Soviet espionage in obtaining secret information from Western scientists associated with the Manhattan Project. That is to say,… — 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 have enjoyed wide support from the New York and London intelligentsia.” — 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
“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… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image