Robert Conquest Quotes

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

The psychosphere, the logosphere, is permeated by concepts, ideas, verbalizations, a whole apparatus devised, or rather evolved, to form some sort of mental contact with reality-or to block it off. That is, a large circle of the "thinking," "educated" class take ideas as more veridical than facts.