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Quotes by Russian Authors
"Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just and idea, just pie in the sky."
"Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically - while simulating a triumphant march forward - than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?"
"While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things."
"If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years."
"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."
"You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him."
"So basically it's very simple: to start with, if you want to win the match, you shouldn't be afraid of him. There are still many, many things to do, but above all this is the most important: Don't be scared of him!"
"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."
"Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is not to be wiped out, it will merely wipe out the wiper. By refusing to say 'It is,' you are refusing to say 'I am.' By suspending your judgment, you are negating your person. When a man declares: 'Who am I to know?'- he is declaring: 'Who am I to live?"
"There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed."
"I still love to play chess. So I do not even spend a minute on the possibility to step back."
"What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying."
"Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views."
"Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul!"
"The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others."
"In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life."
"Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach."
"To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority."
"There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world."
"He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste."
"A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable."
"There are more bad musicians than there is bad music."
"For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals."
"As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world."
"My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society."
"Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones."
"While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare."
"Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth."
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