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Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

Robert Conquest / Historian
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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 Historian

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 Historian

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 Historian

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 Historian

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou Author

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

Kelly Ayotte United States Senator

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

Susan B. Anthony Women's Rights Activist

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

A. J. P. Taylor Historian

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History.

A. S. Byatt Novelist

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

Albert Camus Author

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