Democratic totalitarianism and financial dictatorship exclude social revolution. - Alexander Zinoviev

The petty-bourgeois mind considers the lives of others as if it were in their situation, transposing onto them its attitude, its criteria of judgment, its feelings. p. 37

The man who thinks like a scientist seeks not only to note the facts, but also to analyze them taking into account their chance or their necessity, he tries to analyze the laws that immediate observation does not discern and to 'eliminate the influence of one's own inclinations on the results of one's reflections. 35

The problem with slavery is not why people are forced to become slaves, but why they allow themselves to be enslaved. p. 67