# Richard Pipes - Quotes: 44 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes ## Books - [Property and Freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/property-and-freedom.md) — 14 quotes - [Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/russia-under-the-bolshevik-regime.md) — 18 quotes - [Three "Whys" of the Russian Revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/three-whys-of-the-russian-revolution.md) — 12 quotes ## Recently added quotes > On the eve of its coming to power, industrial workers composed nearly one-third of the Nazi Party membership and constituted its largest occupational groups. The party adopted the Red Flag, declared May 1 a paid national holiday, and required its members to address one another as Genossen or ‘comrades.’ p. 220 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/property-and-freedom/on-the-eve.md) > The Empire was traditionally run by a bureaucracy and a gentry, after 1880 reinforced by a political-police organization. This political policing was a Russian invention; Russia was the first country to have two police systems, one to protect the state from its citizens, and the other to protect the citizens from each other. Subsequently, this dual structure became a fundamental feature of totalitarian states. p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/three-whys-of-the-russian-revolution/the-empire-was.md) > According to Marx, the evolution of capitalism would inevitably lead to the pauperization of the proletariat and then, just as inevitably, to its radicalization. It is interesting that Bento Mussolini arrived at an identical judgment ten years later. Before the outbreak of the first World War, Mussolini had been the closest analogue to Lenin in the European socialist movement, being equally revolutionary and anti-reformist. He was the Lenin of the Italian Socialist Party with the difference that, whereas Mussolini managed to rally behind him a revolutionary majority and expel the reformers, in Russia, Lenin found himself leading a minority and forced to break away from the Social-Democratic Establishment. p. 36 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/three-whys-of-the-russian-revolution/according-to-marx.md) > We cannot determine whether or not he had met Lenin during their common exile in Switzerland; Mussolini once cryptically remarked: ‘Lenin knew me better than I knew him.’ p. 37 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/three-whys-of-the-russian-revolution/we-cannot-determine.md) > Nothing contributed more to the emergence of private property in the West and the rights associated with ownership than the appearance in the late Middle Ages of urban communities. p. 107 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/property-and-freedom/nothing-contributed-more.md) > Lenin wanted power. This may sound self-evident; after all, every politician is assumed to lust for power. But deep down, Lenin’s rivals did not want it. p. 42 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/three-whys-of-the-russian-revolution/lenin-wanted-power.md) > Stoicism’s contribution to the shaping of the Western intellectual tradition is probably second only to that of Jewish monotheism. If monotheism advanced the revolutionary concept of an all-powerful and all-pervasive but non-material God ruling the universe, the theory of Natural Law posited that God’s universe was rational and capable of being grasped by human intelligence. p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/property-and-freedom/stoicisms-contribution-to-the.md) > The purpose of totalitarian parties, for which Bolshevism provided the model, was not to become the government, but to manipulate the government from behind the scenes. p. 39 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/three-whys-of-the-russian-revolution/the-purpose-of-totalitarian.md) > Studying Russian history from the West European perspective, one also becomes conscious of the effect that the absence of feudalism had on Russia. Feudalism had created in the West networks of economic and political institutions that served the central state, once it replaced the feudal system, as a source of social support and relative stability. Russia knew no feudalism in the traditional sense of the word, since, after the emergence of the Muscovite monarchy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, all landowners were tenants-in-chief of the Crown, and subinfeudation was unknown. As a result, all power was concentrated in the Crown. p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/three-whys-of-the-russian-revolution/studying-russian-history.md) > Aristotle based his opposition to common ownership not only on logical but also, and principally, on utilitarian grounds. It is impractical because no one takes proper care of objects that are not his: ‘How immeasurable greater is the pleasure, when a man feels a thing to be his own, for surely the love of self is a feeling implanted by nature… p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/property-and-freedom/aristotle-based-his.md) > A theoretical defense of private property as a feature of Natural Law, however, was not fully made until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the age of Jean Bodin and Hugo Grotius. But that the idea occurred to Romans is evident from Cicero’s argument that government could not interfere with private property because it had been created in order to protect it. p. 12 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/property-and-freedom/a-theoretical-defense.md) > Another advantage of Lenin’s derived from the fact that he did not care about Russia. He cared about Germany and England in the sense that, for him, as a revolutionary, they were the key countries. Russian he viewed as nothing more than a stepping-stone to global upheaval;… p. 43 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-pipes/three-whys-of-the-russian-revolution/another-advantage-of-lenins.md)