Robert Conquest Quotes

#1. Robert Conquest once suggested that 'a curious little volume might be made of the poems of Stalin, Castro, Mao and Ho Chi Minh, with illustrations by A. Hitler.

Martin Amis

#2. Robert Conquest once announced three laws of politics, the first of which says that everyone is right-wing in the matters he knows about.

Roger Scruton

#3. Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.

John Derbyshire

#4. To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.

Dave Barry

#5. (Passion always looks like sacrifice to people who are not in love.)

Kris Vallotton

#6. I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

Peter Steele

#7. 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 War.

Robert Conquest

#8. This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

Grace Lee Boggs

#9. The hardest thing about "everything happens for a reason" is waiting for that reason to show up.

Karen Salmansohn

#10. When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.

Robert Toombs

#11. Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

Robert Conquest

#12. The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment ... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

Robert Briffault

#13. The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.

Kate Winslet

#14. Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

Robert Payne

#15. But if the 1 percent and the 0.1 percent are respected and allowed to risk their wealth - and new rebels are allowed to rise up and challenge them - America will continue to be the land where the last regularly become the first by serving others.

George Gilder

#16. Hahaha!!!...I wish this veil of pretense could hide my habit of dodging quotes but dissapointingly,it doesn't,which is why,I know none yet.

Ayesha Harruna Attah

#17. 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

#18. In some ways grief anonymizes as powerfully as a Greek tragedy mask.

Tana French

#19. You know what it is to laugh at death, Arutha. You'll never be the same man again.

Raymond E. Feist

#20. One of the pleasures of adulthood is saying nothing when you have nothing to say.

Mary-Claire Van Leunen

#21. ... in the ordinary course of a healthy labour, the mouth of the uterus opens by some secret agency; or at least without any apparent force.

Ina May Gaskin

#22. You made a point about proof. In this sort of history we do nt have proof ... Yet ... the incontrovertibility of the evidence can be plain even when it is not documentary or complete.

Robert Conquest

#23. 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 slippers: then drooling.

Robert Conquest

#24. Vohannes turns and grins at her. "So! Here is the triumphant warrior, fresh off of her conquest. What an epic night you've had!" "Vo, I honestly do not have time for your supposed charms. How did you get in?" "By liberally applying my supposed charms, of course," says Vohannes.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#25. The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Robert Kiyosaki

#26. 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 moral fault.

Robert Conquest

#27. Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.

Sara Genn

#28. And then it happens. The panic. It's slow at first, creeping through the cracks in my thoughts until everything starts to feel heavy. It builds; it becomes something physical that clutches at my insides and squeezes out the air and the blood.

Sara Barnard

#29. Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.

Robert Conquest

#30. 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

#31. The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force of arms, nobody "owns" the earth, anymore than the moon, the planets, the stars themselves.

Robert Anton Wilson

#32. 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

#33. I don't train to look good in the mirror. I train to make improvements in my game.

Duncan Keith

#34. We can borrow from the moneylenders in York.'
'We burned York two winters ago,' Drogo pointed out.

Robert Lyndon

#35. In a jungle full of totalitarian monsters liberal democracy needs teeth.

Robert Conquest