Vladimir Burtsev/world War I and The Bolsheviks 1914

Famous quotes containing the words vladimir, world and/or war:

    It’s not money that brings happiness, it’s lots of money.
    Russian saying, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)

    It is of the nobility of man’s soul that he is insatiable: for he hath a benefactor so prone to give, that he delighteth in us for asking. Do not your inclinations tell you that the WORLD is yours?
    Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)

    Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor’s son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)