Rashed Nabolsi

“If Russia were governed democratically, according to the will of the majority, the inhabitants of Moscow and Petrograd would die of starvation. As it is, Moscow and Petrograd just manage to live, by having the whole civil and military power of the State devoted to their needs.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

“went to Russia a Communist; but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism

“Kant wishes to draw the limits of the understanding. If there are things that cannot be grasped by the understanding, then all assertions about them are meaningless.”
― Roger Scruton, Kant: A Very Short Introduction

“Every rational being must be tempted to think that the peculiar immediacy and inviolability of self-awareness guarantee its content.”
― Roger Scruton, Kant: A Very Short Introduction