Russian Civil War/aftermath

Famous quotes containing the words russian, civil, war and/or aftermath:

    “That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.”
    —Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)

    “War. Fighting. Men ... every man in the whole realm is in the army.... Every man in uniform ... An economy entirely geared to war ... but there is not much war ... hardly any fighting ... yet every man a soldier from birth till death ... Men ... all men for fighting ... but no war, no wars to fight ... what is it, what does it mean?””
    —Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

    “The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)