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

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

    If I do grow great, I’ll grow less, for I’ll purge and leave
    sack, and live cleanly as a nobleman should do.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
    Günther Grass (b. 1927)

    The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)