Quotes by Russian/Russia authors (page 20)

"It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands"

Ivan Pavlov, Psychologist

"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"

Boris Yeltsin, President

"We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity"

Boris Yeltsin, President

"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"

Boris Yeltsin, President

"There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends"

Boris Yeltsin, President

"The place of chess in the society is closely related to the attitude of young people towards our game"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya"

Boris Yeltsin, President

"We were like bishops of opposite color"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some"

Boris Spassky, Celebrity

"I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency"

Anatoly Karpov, Celebrity

"In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years"

Aleksandr Lebed, Politician

"I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go"

Aleksandr Lebed, Politician

"For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime"

Aleksandr Lebed, Politician

"Man keeps inventing things all the time"

Mikhail Kalashnikov, Inventor

"We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"The world will not accept dictatorship or domination"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"If not me, who? And if not now, when?"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"I believe, as Lenin said, that this revolutionary chaos may yet crystallize into new forms of life"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour"

Mikhail Kalashnikov, Inventor

"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire.'"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard"

Mikhail Gorbachev, Statesman

"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

"Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

"Envy is an insult to oneself"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

"A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote"

Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Poet

"My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science"

Andrei Sakharov, Physicist

"In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons"

Andrei Sakharov, Physicist

"Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books"

G. I. Gurdjieff, Educator