#comrade

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay! ↗

— Andrei Platonov

#forget #here #kids #lenin #mothers

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#gentleness #love #material-things #money #power

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy. ↗

— James Longstreet

#avenue #comrades #die #enough #happy

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#death