Timeline of The Great Purge/statistics - October 1936-november 1938

Famous quotes containing the words purge, statistics and/or october:

    Now, neigbour confines, purge you of your scum!
    Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance,
    Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit
    The oldest sins the newest kind of ways?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Especially when the October wind
    With frosty fingers punishes my hair,
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)