A Stalin Functionary Admitted, Innocent People Were

A Stalin Functionary Admitted, Innocent People Were Arrested: Naturally - Otherwise No One Would Be Frightened. If People Were Arrested Only For Specific Misdemeanours, All The Others Would Feel Safe And So Become Ripe For Treason.

My Grandfather Used To Say, "learn To Like Art, Music And Literature Deeply And Passionately. They Will Be Your Friends When Things Are Bad". It Is True: At This Time Of Year, When Days Are Short And Dark, And One Hardly Dares To Open The Newspapers, I Turn, Not Vainly Either, To The Great Creators Of The Past For Distraction, Solace And Help.

Human Beings Are Infinitely Worth Studying, Especially The Peculiarities That Often Go Along With Outstanding Gifts.

There Are No Inevitabilities In History

The Study Of History Is A Powerful Antidote To Contemporary Arrogance. It Is Humbling To Discover How Many Of Our Glib Assumptions, Which Seem To Us Novel And Plausible, Have Been Tested Before, Not Once But Many Times And In Innumerable Guises; And Discovered To Be, At Great Human Cost, Wholly False.