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The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.
— Robert Conquest
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you're (linguistically) dead.
— David Crystal
Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.
— Jim Rohn
In a jungle full of totalitarian monsters liberal democracy needs teeth.
— Robert Conquest
Asked if Stalin was an antisemite, Robert Conquest replied: Yes, but it hardly noticed. He was broadly and generously anti-human.
— John Derbyshire
We can borrow from the moneylenders in York.' 'We burned York two winters ago,' Drogo pointed out. — Robert Lyndon
Do you know how many plastic surgeries are done to the actors and actresses in Hollywood?
— Joseph Jackson
The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.
— Robert Kiyosaki
You can tell what was the best year of your father's life, because they seem to freeze that clothing style and ride it out.
— Jerry Seinfeld
Robert Conquest once announced three laws of politics, the first of which says that everyone is right-wing in the matters he knows about.
— Roger Scruton
Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.
— Robert Conquest
Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
— Robert Conquest
Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs,whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle ... — Anne Sexton
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.
— Robert Conquest
I'm going to kill you later today," I say to that guy in the mirror, and he just smiles back at me like he can't wait.
— Matthew Quick
It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.
— Richard Russo
So why, then, can't Ackbar shake the feeling that once again they are about to fall into a trap?
— Chuck Wendig