I Believe That The Madness Of Communism

The Broad Masses Of A Population Are More Amenable To The Appeal Of Rhetoric Than To Any Other Force.

Thus My Faith Grew That My Beautiful Dream For The Future Would Become Reality After All, Even Though This Might Require Long Years.

Our Teachers Were Absolute Tyrants. They Had No Sympathy With Youth; Their One Object Was To Stuff Our Brains And Turn Us Into Erudite Apes Like Themselves. If Any Pupil Showed The Slightest Trace Of Originality, They Persecuted Him Relentlessly, And The Only Model Pupils Whom I Have Ever Got To Know Have All Been Failures In After-life.

The Thinking Of The One, Therefore, Will Be Determined By Eternal Truth, The Actions Of The Other More By The Practical Reality Of The Moment. The Greatness Of The One Lies In The Absolute Abstract Soundness Of His Idea.

A Definite Factor In Getting A Lie Believed Is The Size Of The Lie. The Broad Mass Of The People, In The Simplicity Of Their Hearts, More Easily Fall Victim To A Big Lie Than To A Small One.