Patrick Dillon > Patrick's Quotes

“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

“Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.”
― Robert Conquest

“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, Reflections on a Ravaged Century

“Seven Ages: first puking and mewling
Then very pissed-off with your schooling
Then fucks, and then fights
Next judging chaps' rights
Then sitting in slippers: then drooling.”
― Robert Conquest

“In a jungle full of totalitarian monsters liberal democracy needs teeth.”
― Robert Conquest