Quotes by Russian/Russia authors (page 26)

"The rule of law is essential for the functioning of a modern democracy, and we must work to strengthen it in Russia"

"Corruption is a cancer that eats away at the foundations of our society, and we must do everything we can to fight it"

"We need to focus on the development of innovation and high technology, as this is the key to the future success of our country"

Dmitry Medvedev, President

"A strong state is a state that ensures the well-being of its citizens, but also respects the rights of its citizens"

Dmitry Medvedev, President

"The essence of democracy is not in power, but in its limitations"

Dmitry Medvedev, President

"Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you"

Konstantin Stanislavisky, Actor

"I see Earth! It is so beautiful!"

Yuri Gagarin, Astronaut

"It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!"

Alexandra Kosteniuk, Celebrity

"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is"

Nathalie Sarraute, Lawyer

"I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless"

Alfred Schnittke, Composer

"Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"My feet are dogs"

Rudolf Nureyev, Dancer

"Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This is what every Soviet man wants"

Yuri Andropov, Statesman

"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it"

Konstantin Stanislavisky, Actor

"The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation"

Konstantin Stanislavisky, Actor

"Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation"

Konstantin Stanislavisky, Actor

"New York is a fantastic city"

Marat Safin, Athlete

"The world may end up under a Sword of Damocles on a tightrope over the abyss"

Andrei A. Gromyko, Politician

"My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments"

Alexandra Kosteniuk, Celebrity

"Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing"

Nathalie Sarraute, Lawyer

"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading"

Nathalie Sarraute, Lawyer

"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read"

Nathalie Sarraute, Lawyer

"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well"

Nathalie Sarraute, Lawyer

"I have never sought the reason why I write"

Nathalie Sarraute, Lawyer

"Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity"

Modest Mussorgsky, Composer

"Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929"

Mikhail Botvinnik, Celebrity

"I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent"

Alfred Schnittke, Composer

"Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career"

Alexander Borodin, Composer

"The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers"

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Businessman

"The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work"

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Businessman

"We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"Let Catholics build their own churches and works"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

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