Quotes
- I have travelled fairly widely in 'Communist' Russia (where they supplied me with the inverted commas).
- ... to read a propagandist, a man with vested intellectual interests, is as dull as dining with a vegetarian.
- I know nothing, and care less, about political theory; knavery, oppression and ineptitude, as perpetrated by governments, interest me only in their concrete manifestations, in their impact on mankind: not in their nebulous doctrinal origins.
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