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Simon Sebag Montefiore
“He asked, ‘How can you make a revolution without firing-squads?”
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin

Robert A. Caro
“Science, knowledge, logic and brilliance might be useful tools but they didn’t build highways or civil service systems. Power built highways and civil service systems. Power was what dreams needed, not power in the hand of the dreamer himself necessarily but power put behind the dreamer’s dream by the man who it to put there, power that he termed “executive support”.”
Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Simon Sebag Montefiore
“In a colossal bureaucracy run like a nepotistic village, Stalin showed himself a master of personal politics.180 He was the patron of these brutal tendencies but also their personification: he was right when he blasphemously declared in 1929 that ‘the Party has made me in its own image’. He and the Party had”
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Young Stalin

Victor Sebestyen
“Lenin is one of those people who possess a quite exceptional strength of character . . . he is a man of many gifts and he has all the qualities of a “leader” – especially the complete lack of morality essential for such a role, and the aristocrat’s contempt for the masses. Life in all its complexity is unknown to Lenin. He does not know the masses. He has never lived among them, but he found out from books how to raise the masses onto their hind legs, how to enrage their instincts easily. To Lenin, the working class is like iron ore to a metalworker. Is it possible, given present circumstances, to cast a socialist state out of this ore? Evidently not. But why not try? What does Lenin risk if his experiment fails? . . . I am mistrustful of Russians in power – recently slaves themselves, they will become unbridled despots as soon as they have the chance to be their neighbours’ masters.”
Victor Sebestyen, Lenin the Dictator

Thomas Hobbes
“Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.”
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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