Famous quotes containing the words russian, civil, war and/or aftermath:
“In certain respects, particularly economically, National- Socialism is nothing but bolshevism. These two are hostile brothers of whom the younger has learned everything from the older, the Russian excepting only morality.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
propped by a plank splint against the garage’s earthquake.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“If we don’t end war, war will end us.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)
“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)