Famous quotes containing the words russian, civil, war and/or aftermath:
“In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn’t the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.”
—Joseph Ratzinger (b. 1927)
“A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)