Famous quotes containing the words russian, civil, war and/or aftermath:
“Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it wont be the American Century, after all. Or the Russian Century or the Atomic Century. Wouldnt it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybodys century, when people all over the worldfree peoplefound a way to live together? Id like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning.”
—Moss Hart (19041961)
“Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
propped by a plank splint against the garages earthquake.”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
“The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the settingthe war and the revolutionand the character of the accusedrevolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign poweryou can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.”
—Leon Trotsky (18791940)
“The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)