Quotes by Robert Conquest

About Robert Conquest:

George Robert Acworth Conquest was a British-American historian and poet, notable for his influential works on Soviet history including The Great Terror: Stalin's Purges of the 1930s (1968). He was a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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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

Anthony Howard, then editor of the left-wing , 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

As is now generally admitted, a Soviet bomb would not have been achieved for several years more but for the success of Soviet espionage in obtaining secret information from Western scientists associated with the Manhattan Project. That is to say, pol...

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Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

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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.

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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," "educate...

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameRobert Conquest
  • Descriptionpoet and historian from England and the United States
  • BornJuly 15, 1917
  • DiedAugust 3, 2015
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionHistorian; Author; Researcher
  • AwardsMichael Braude Award For Light Verse