Quotes from Richard Crossman

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong

For the intellectual, material comforts are relatively unimportant.

With relentless selectivity, the Communist machine has winnowed out the grain and retained only the chaff of Western culture.

But no one who has not wrestled with Communism as a philosophy, and Communists as political opponents, can really understand the values of Western democracy. The Devil once lived in Heaven, and those who have not met him are unlikely to recognize an angel when they see one.

The objectivity we sought was the power to recollect — if not in tranquillity, at least in 'dispassion' and this power is rarely granted except to the imaginative writer.

The Communist novice, subjecting his soul to the canon law of the Kremlin, felt something of the release which Catholicism also brings to the intellectual, wearied and worried by the privilege of freedom.