Quotes by Russian/Russia authors (page 29)

"In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure"

Valentina Tereshkova, Astronaut

"If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?"

Valentina Tereshkova, Astronaut

"I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century"

Valentina Tereshkova, Astronaut

"A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?"

Rudolf Nureyev, Dancer

"Repentance is accepted remorse"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"We expect everything and are prepared for nothing"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration"

Rudolf Nureyev, Dancer

"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror"

Peter Kropotkin, Revolutionary

"To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?"

Peter Kropotkin, Revolutionary

"America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society"

Peter Kropotkin, Revolutionary

"This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions"

Valentina Tereshkova, Astronaut

"They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen"

Valentina Tereshkova, Astronaut

"Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward"

Valentina Tereshkova, Astronaut

"A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable"

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Businessman

"The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor"

Morris Raphael Cohen, Philosopher

"There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician