Francis McCullagh > Quotes

“Practically all human literature deals with the present and the past; when literature tries to describe the future, it at once ceases to be human and ceases to be literature; and all the pictures which the Bolsheviks have so far given us of a future world constructed on the design of Lenin are so depressing that nobody would like to read about such a world, much less to live in it.”
― Francis Mccullagh, A prisoner of the Reds, the story of a British officer captured Siberia

“In London we have doubled the postage rate. In Moscow they have abolished it, and you can drop letters into a postal box without any stamp at all, but also unfortunately without much chance of ever getting an answer, for half the letters are never collected or delivered. In London they have increased the tramway fares. In Moscow they have abolished them, but unfortunately the trams do not run”
― Francis Mccullagh, A prisoner of the Reds, the story of a British officer captured Siberia

“Some of the most whimsical things that have been written by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, the most mysterious situations that have been invented by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe, or Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, or Mr. John Buchan, might have been founded on fact in Moscow.”
― Francis Mccullagh, A prisoner of the Reds, the story of a British officer captured Siberia

“I have sometimes wondered, indeed, if there be not a demon whose special function it is to inflame crowds of men to perpetrate atrocities that no individual in the mob would be so inhuman as to commit. * * Where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.'* May not the devil be able to say that also”
― Francis Mccullagh, A prisoner of the Reds, the story of a British officer captured Siberia