Cyril Connolly Quotes
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
Connolly, Cyril. The Unquiet Grave: A Word Cycle by Palinurus. Horizon, 1944.
Kissinger and Nixon were talking about the Russian discrimination and persecution of Jews throughout the Soviet Union. Kissinger had drawn an extreme hypothetical analogy of Russians sending Jews to gas chambers. See related quote. This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were released. Nixon tended to have the worst stereotyped view of all minority groups.
During the American Revolution, the Iroquois sided with the British, aiding them militarily and other ways. The revolutionaries responded by attacking and destroying most of the Iroquois who retreated to British Canada.
Cyril Vernon Connolly was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–49) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful author of fiction that he had aspired to be in his youth.
