Russia Quotes - Page 16

• I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.

  Marquis de Custine

  Country, Believe, Civilization

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• I consider him Stalin one of the greatest persons in the history of mankind. In the history of Russia he was, in my opinion, even greater than Lenin. Until Stalin's death I was anti-Stalinist, but I always regarded him as a brilliant personality.

  Alexander Zinoviev

  Personality, Brilliant, Opinion

  Interview with Gennadiy Petrov, November 05, 2006.

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• Russians understand the rhythm of despair.

  Suzanne Massie

  Despair, Rhythm

  Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

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• Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Ice, Water

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• There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mean, Reality, America

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• For two years now, my office has had the honour and the privilege of sponsoring seminars on the functioning of government in this country for Eastern Europeans. These seminars and exchanges have brought together representatives from such nations as Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Roumania, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and the Ukraine, all of them anxious to learn what makes a society as diverse as Canada work and how our institutions make it governable.

  John Allen Fraser

  Country, Government, Ukraine

  "The House of Commons at Work". Book by John Fraser, 1993.

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• My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.

  Rhea Perlman

  My Family, Poland, Jew

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every time a new nation, America or Russia for instance, advances toward civilization, the human race perfects itself; every time an inferior class emerges from enslavement and degradation, the human race again perfects itself.

  Madame de Stael

  Race, Civilization, Class

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• The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with Cuba - this as we're awkwardizing relations with Russia.

  Craig Ferguson

  White, House, Cuba

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• The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.

  Ayn Rand

  Roots, Anxiety, Secret

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.71, Penguin

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• Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Would Be, World

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• In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

  Gary Shteyngart

  America, Unions, Way

  "Russian revolution" by Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2007.

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• If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Stills, Ifs

  "Gary Shteyngart: 'Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2010.

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• The biggest nationalist in Russia: that's me.

  Vladimir Putin

  Addressing the Valdai Club, October 24, 2014.

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• We in Russia have always considered Russians and Ukrainians to be one people. I still think so.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, People, Stills

  Speech at a Moscow concert on the first anniversary of the annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Federation, March 18, 2015.

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• I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.

  Vladimir Putin

  Girl, Believe, Police

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• Hitler wanted to destroy Russia- everyone needs to remember how that ended

  Vladimir Putin

  Needs, Remember, Wanted

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• Let us resolve the internal political problems of Russia ourselves

  Vladimir Putin

  Political, Problem, Resolve

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• The fact that the union of different nationalities and denominations resulted from the liberation, this is particularly symbolic and important for our multinational country, As long as we feel this unity inside us, Russia will be invincible.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Different Nationalities, Long

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• Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.

  I. F. Stone

  Integrity, Artist, Years

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• We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Democracy, Liberty, Debate

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• Edward Snowden gave a little press conference today. He is apparently seeking temporary asylum in Russia. Because, you know, when you're tired of the government snooping into everything you do, Putin's Russia is definitely the place you want to go.

  Bill Maher

  Tired, Government, Want

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• The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Twenties, Dollar Bills, Dollars

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• We had very good discussions on current security challenges and NATO's continued adaptation to meet them. Canada is a committed ally and a capable contributor to international security. We appreciate your quick decision to deploy forces, planes and ships to strengthen our collective defence in view of Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine, as well as your contribution to the international anti-ISIL coalition. Canada plays a major part in our decision-making and helps keep the vital bond between Europe and North America strong.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Strong, America, Ukraine

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• In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.

  Edgar Snow

  War, People, Cold

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