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Quotes by Russian Authors
"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party."
"The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death."
"For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression."
"Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws."
"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
"The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness."
"But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods."
"To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well."
"I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?"
"I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril."
"I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation."
"There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others."
"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."
"We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts."
"The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles."
"Military police is very timely for our army."
"One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force."
"Man is a pliant animal a being who gets accustomed to anything."
"Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist."
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."
"Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it."
"He was a crystal of morality among our scientists."
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."
"The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness."
"The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past."
"You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fed with cattle feed - people don't get paid for half a year."
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
"My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could."
"What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup."
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