Nothing Appeals To Intellectuals More Than The

The Richness And Variety, And Indeed The Advance, Of Our Culture Depend Upon The Continuation Of This Conflict [between Conservatives And Radicals], Which Is Deeply Rooted In Human Nature.

Long Periods Of Recession, Which Tend To Be Self-perpetuating, Are Usually Ended By War, Or By Preparations For It.

Next To Courage, Willpower Is The Most Important Thing In Politics.

If The Decline Of Christianity Created The Modern Political Zealot - And His Crimes - So The Evaporation Of Religious Faith Among The Educated Left A Vacuum In The Minds Of Western Intellectuals Easily Filled By Secular Superstition. There Is No Other Explanation For The Credulity With Which Scientists, Accustomed To Evaluating Evidence, And Writers, Whose Whole Function Was To Study And Criticize Society, Accepted The Crudest Stalinist Propaganda At Its Face Value. They Needed To Believe; They Wanted To Be Duped.

His (lenin's)humanitarianism Was A Very Abstract Passion. It Embraced Humanity In General But He Seems To Have Had Little Love For, Or Even Interest In, Humanity In Particular. He Saw The People With Whom He Dealt, His Comrades, Not As Individuals But As Receptacles For His Ideas. On That Basis, And No Other, They Were Judged. He Judged Man Not By Their Moral Qualities But By Their Views, Or Rather The Degree To Which They Accepted His.