There were moments when Szara suspected that many idealists drawn to Communism were, at heart, people with an appetite for clandestine life.

Alan Furst
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. - Unknown

  2. In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want;... - Karl Marx

  3. The first duty of a man is to think for himself - Unknown

  4. You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker - Malcolm X

  5. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. - Vladimir Lenin

More Quotes By Alan Furst
  1. For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing of the bell, the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw, he attended early mass, at a small church near the apartment, once...

  2. Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.

  3. A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.

  4. Whether they loved each other or not, they were lovers. And he was damned if he'd see her sucked into this brutal business.

  5. But the world doesn't run on logic, it runs on the seven deadly sins and the weather. - Alan Furst; Red Gold

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