Berlin Quote by Noam Chomsky

[Mikhail Bakunin] expectations were generally confirmed, including his prediction that some would seek to gain state power on the backs of popular revolution, then…

— Noam Chomsky

“The eschatological impulse, a reflection (or distortion) of the Orthodox Church, was recognizably at work among Russian revolutionaries, notably Belinsky and Bakunin. The most…

— Pankaj Mishra

In the post-Soviet era, instead of freedom, various stripes of autocratic-totalitarianism have flourished: Russian, Belarusian, Kazakh... We are finding our way out from under…

— Svetlana Alexievich

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the…

— Slavoj Žižek

“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

— Frank Herbert

“His was the profession at that era in which intellectual ability displayed itself far more than in political life; for—leaving a higher motive out…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“(...) the interaction of Social Democratic ideals with the realities of Russian society lead to the creation of a new social type, the praktik,…

— Lars T. Lih

[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ,…

— David A. Bednar

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about…

— Masha Gessen