The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.