Russia Quotes - Page 21

• First, we need good, stable relations with Russia. Second, we must make every effort to save energy and focus on using various sources to meet our energy needs. We must not allow ourselves to become dependent.

  Angela Merkel

  Effort, Focus, Firsts

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights.

  Khaled Mashal

  Play, Rights, Important

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• Now how about this, ladies and gentlemen? The Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has announced she is stepping down. She will no longer be the Governor of Alaska. First thing, she woke up and went out on her porch and waved goodbye to Russia.

  David Letterman

  Goodbye, Alaska, Gentleman

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• If Russia is prepared to run the risk of cutting off supplies to its neighbors if they have a disagreement, how reliable are they as a supplier? You have to ask the question.

  William Ramsay

  Running, Cutting, Risk

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• The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.

  David Hare

  Views, America, Dry

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• It’s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong! It’s wrong in America, it’s wrong in Germany, it’s wrong in Russia, it’s wrong in China! It was wrong in two thousand B.C., and it’s wrong in nineteen fifty-four A.D.! It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, America, Germany

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Sermon at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. February 28, 1954.

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• All countries will inevitably have to do what Russia has done.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Done

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• One thing I fear, that you Americans will do the same thing that you did after the last war. I mean that you will pull out of here and leave Europe, then Russia will have her way. Private enterprise and individual rights will be lost just as much as under a Nazi government. Frightful!

  Hjalmar Schacht

  War, Mean, Rights

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Europe, Numbers, Half

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• As we know, the goal of every struggle is victory. But if the proletariat is to achieve victory, all the workers, irrespective of nationality, must be united. Clearly, the demolition of national barriers and close unity between the Russian, Georgian, Armenian, Polish, Jewish and other proletarians is a necessary condition for the victory of the proletariat of all Russia.

  Joseph Stalin

  Struggle, Goal, Unity

  "J. V. Stalin Works" Volume 1, by Joseph Stalin, Foreign Languages Publishing House, (pp. 279-94), 1954.

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• That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Triumph, Would Be, Empires

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, Chapter XIV: Who Rules The World?, 1929.

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• Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.

  Winston Churchill

  Cities, Water, Culture

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Queens, Memories, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities - but you can have ten shots of vodka and be perfectly okay. If I had ten beers, I would be liquidated.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Beer, Cities, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You can't have a Russian household without vodka. It's just something to wash everything down with. I can't remember a time when I didn't drink vodka, either in Russia or here. I don't think there's ever a wrong time to start drinking it. My ancestors drank it, and if I ever have any children, they'll be drinking it.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Children, Drinking, Thinking

  "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country in the dark ages and having a rollicking good time.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Country, Dark, Age

  "Gary Shteyngart's Rules for Vodka Drinking" by Ben Detrick, www.esquire.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Italy has sun and tomatoes, and Russia just has real problems.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Real, Tomatoes, Sun

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Country, Mean, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The ultimate moment where I most felt like a rebel was in St. Petersburg, Russia [in 2012 during the MDNA Tour] when I was told they were going to arrest anyone who was openly or obviously gay and they came to my shows and I spoke out against the government.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gay, Government, Rebel

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.

  Anton Chekhov

  Character, Government, Hands

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, December 17, 1890.

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• Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Europe, Asia, Would Be

  "Dilemmas of Empire 1850-1918: Power, Territory, Identity" by Dominic Livien in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No.2, p. 180, April 1999.

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• it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.

  Bertrand Russell

  United States, Development, Rivals

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel, Beryl Haslam (2000). “Uncertain Paths to Freedom: Russia and China, 1919-22”, p.190, Psychology Press

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• I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Reading, Doubt, Matter

  "Like it was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge". Book by Malcolm Muggeridge, p. 252, 1981.

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• Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in their bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles.

  Tom Robbins

  Government, Differences, America

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.43, Bantam

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• And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear?

  William Allen Butler

  Men, Thinking, Boots

  William Allen BUTLER (1858). ““Two Millions”; and “Nothing to Wear.” Two poems”, p.82

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