Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

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.

The American day traders have popped up in Russia for the first time.

Soundarya

I'd like to be known for my character.

Mikhail Bakunin

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Ayn Rand

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.

Edward Snowden

One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great.

Boris Yeltsin

You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.

Dimitri Simes

We have vastly different hopes and expectations, as far as the U.S.-Russia relationship is concerned, in Moscow and Washington. What we need, however, is to manage this troubled relationship -- we don't want this relationship to go out of control.

Eduard Shevardnadze

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

Eduard Shevardnadze

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

Alexei Navalny

Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia.

Alexei Navalny

Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.

Alexei Navalny

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

Alexei Navalny

Since Russia has the largest number of illegal immigrants, second only to the US, and immigrants from Central Asia bring in drugs, I'm calling for a visa requirement for all those wonderful people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

Albert Einstein

Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.

Alexander Lebedev

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

Alexander Lebed

Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.

Adolf Galland

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

Adolf Hitler

If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.

Adolf Hitler

Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

We welcome, we welcome this good cooperation between Russia and NATO.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957! Solzhenitsyn cited Cheka Order No. 10, issued on January 8, 1921: 'To intensify the repression of the bourgeoisie.'

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?

Conan O'Brien

Russia's Vladimir Putin appeared in public for the first time after a mysterious 10-day absence. Putin said it took him that long to recover from the finale of 'The Bachelor.'

John Sparkman

We've got to do something. You can't play Russian roulette on this.

Anatoli Boukreev

There are many questions, but I cannot answer because I'm not a businessman, I am a climber.

Anatoli Boukreev

I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.

Condoleezza Rice

Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.

Condoleezza Rice

This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

Condoleezza Rice

Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.