The ancestors are generally only a caricature of the contemporaries, and the descendants a caricature of the ancestors. p. 127 - Alexander Zinoviev

The problem is not the lack of freedom, it is on the contrary the excess of freedom! We're stuffed with it! (p. 36)

The Party is the organization of leaders, in the strongest sense of the term and for leaders of all orders. It is, fundamentally, an organ of repression, and not just the place of production of slogans and speeches. Our party is not one, in the sense in which it was understood before the revolution, or in the Western sense of the term. It only has the name. It's not the party, it's the Party. And its role is quite different in the life of society (it is power, privileges). p. 115

Western society is undemocratic, totalitarian in its very essence - at the level of production cells. And that is why it is democratic in its superstructure, in its ideology. There is a sort of law of constancy of the sum of democracy and totalitarianism.