There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.