The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.