Quotes by Russian/Russia authors (page 2)

"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"The writer is the engineer of the human soul"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"The Pope? How many divisions has he got?"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"Crime is a product of social excess"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster"

Catherine the Great, Royalty

"I praise loudly. I blame softly"

Catherine the Great, Royalty

"They pay little attention to what we say and prefer to read tea leaves"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"The press is our chief ideological weapon"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities"

Ayn Rand, Writer

"Advertising is the very essence of democracy"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

"The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"If love is the treasure, laughter is the key"

Yakov Smirnoff, Comedian

"God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do"

George Balanchine, Dancer

"Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work"

Anna Pavlova, Dancer

"Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?"

Maxim Gorky, Novelist

"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

"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

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

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"If there is no God, everything is permitted"

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

"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind"

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