 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Soon after my arrival in Moscow I had an hour's conversation with Lenin in English, which he speaks fairly well. An interpreter was present, but his services were scarcely required. ... I have never met a personage so destitute of self-importance. ... at first his laugh seems merely friendly and jolly, but gradually I came to feel it rather grim. He is dictatorial, calm, incapable of fear, extraordinarily devoid of self-seeking, an embodied theory. Source: Bertrand Russell : The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, 1920
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