Robert Conquest

Historian

1917-07-15

Books by Robert Conquest

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The psychosphere, the logosphere, is permeated by concepts, ideas, verbalizations, a whole apparatus devised, or rather evolved, to form some sort of mental contact with reality--or to block it off. That is, a large circle of the thinking, educated class take ideas as more veridical than facts.
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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.
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The psychosphere, the logosphere, is permeated by concepts, ideas, verbalizations, a whole apparatus devised, or rather evolved, to form some sort of mental contact with reality--or to block it off. That is, a large circle of the thinking, educated class take ideas as more veridical than facts.
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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.
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Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.
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