Bevan Lewis

“At the present rate of attrition, Haig delighted in informing the prime minister, ‘the enemy’s man power will be running out next May or June at the latest’.”
― Paul Ham, Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth

“Article One of the Fundamental Laws of 1906 declared, ‘The Emperor of All Russia is an autocratic and unrestricted monarch. To obey his supreme authority, not only out of fear but out of conscience, God Himself commands.’18”
― S.A. Smith, Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928

“Victor Klemperer, a literary scholar of Jewish origin, turned his philological training against Nazi propaganda. He noticed how Hitler’s language rejected legitimate opposition: The people always meant some people and not others (the president uses the word in this way), encounters were always struggles (the president says winning), and any attempt by free people to understand the world in a different way was defamation of the leader (or, as the president puts it, libel). Politicians”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Joseph Conrad once wrote that ‘it is the peculiarity of Russian natures that however sharply engaged in the drama of action, they are still turning their ear to the murmur of abstract ideas’.106”
― S.A. Smith, Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928