Red Cross Societies

Famous quotes containing the words red, cross and/or societies:

“the anchor weeps
Its red rust downward,”
—Louise Bogan (1897–1970)

“To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.”
—Douglass Cross (b. 1920)

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)