Isaac Deutscher

Quotes

• “The intoxication with the theatre, with its limelight, costumes, and masks, and with its passions and conflicts, accords...”
• “By offering the educated a semblance of freedom he made the denial of real freedom even more painful and humiliating. Th...”
• “The local liberal press, much molested by the censorship, had its courageous and skilful writers such as VM Doroshevich,...”
• “Wherever he went he left footprints so firm that nobody could later efface or blur them, not even he himself, when on ra...”
• “I do not think that a man's rise to power is necessarily the climax of his life or that his loss of office should be equ...”