Russian Civil War/aftermath

Famous quotes containing the words russian, civil, war and/or aftermath:

    We are all dead men on leave.
    Eugene Leviné, Russian Jew, friend of Rosa Luxemburg’s lover, Jogiches. quoted in Men in Dark Times, “Rosa Luxemburg: 1871-1919,” sct. 3, Hannah Arendt (1968)

    They have been waiting for us in a foetor
    Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,
    Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure
    Of the expropriated mycologist.
    Derek Mahon (b. 1941)

    Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
    Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

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