As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.