Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.

Trotsky was essentially a Western mind. Lenin was a Russian, and unlike most other revolutionary exiles, wherever he went he was a Russian.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time.