Robert Service > Quotes

“Morality is entirely subordinate to the interests of class war. And everything is moral that is necessary for the annihilation of the old, exploiting social order and for uniting the proletariat.”
― Robert Service, The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991

“The victor powers in the Great War had irresistible force at their disposal if only they could muster the will to deploy it. But they increasingly lacked that will.”
― Robert Service, Spies and Commissars: The Early Years of the Russian Revolution

“Parvus denied that universal suffrage was an end to itself since the middle class would always find ways to manipulate the electoral system. Freedom could not be begged for: it had to be won.”
― Robert Service, Trotsky: A Biography

“Schopenhauer aconsejaba que «en su relación con los demás, un hombre de gran talento siempre debe hacer entender que sus mayores dones son tan elevados que”
― Robert Service, Trotski

“reason for communist dispiritedness. The Italian government suppressed the Turin rebels before they could”
― Robert Service, Comrades: Communism: A World History