The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

I do not see class as a 'structure', nor even as a 'category', but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships... the notion of class entails the notion of historical relationship. ...And class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.