Quotes by Russian/Russia authors (page 2)

"Advertising is the very essence of democracy"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others"

Madame Swetchine, Writer

"How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"If you want to be happy, be"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Boredom: the desire for desires"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary