Top 7 Robert Conquest Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.”

— Robert Conquest

3. “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.”

— Robert Conquest

4. “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

5. “In a jungle full of totalitarian monsters liberal democracy needs teeth.”

— Robert Conquest

6. “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

7. “Such work as is overtly political has usually been the result of neither experience nor insight, those essentials to any true creation, but rather of the frigid projection on to unsuitable material of opinions learnt in the abstract, ideologies accepted on trust.”

— Robert Conquest

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