Russian Quotes

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

In modern Russia, you have no official, formal assessment of this past. Nobody in any Russian document has said that the policy of the Soviet government was criminal, that it was terrible. No one has ever said this.

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

I definitely feel Russian inside, even when I'm in America I feel Russian.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets.

For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.

And everything stopped quite rapidly because I knew that nobody in Europe was able to go to space. It was the privilege of being either American or Russian.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics.

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.