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)

    If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    But no, he only said,
    “Well, there’s the storm. That says I must go on.
    That wants me as a war might if it came.
    Ask any man.”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

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