The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.

Political activism
Arriving in Cambridge as a Catholic Bernal became a socialist as a result of a long night arguing with a friend. (1965). 0143.

John Desmond Bernal[pronunciation?]FRS (10 May 1901 – 15 September 1971) was one of the United Kingdom's most well-known and controversial scientists.