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“...but in 1917 we had no cares except the mundane ones of starvation and occupation and civil war, and for those of us in…

— William T. Vollmann

“Russians consider themselves civilized Europeans, but have to endure the humiliation of daily encounters with officials that belong in a squalid dictatorship.”

— Oliver Bullough

“Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.”

— Lawrence H. Keeley

“No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,”

— John Dos Passos

“Such a catastrophe cannot threaten if the Nordic race will gather itself together in time, shake off the shackles of an inveterate altruism, discard…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“[He] embodies this tension between civilization and its discontents, between the longing for a rational and cultured life and the bad luck and regrets…

— Daniel Menaker

“Perhaps I should go back a few years earlier. My parents, who travelled from Odessa, the Russian city on the Black Sea, shortly before…

— Emanuel Litvinoff

“No two nations differ more from each other than the Russians and Finlanders. The former are as active, acute and sensible, as the latter…

— William Thomson

“Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.”

— Lord Byron