Philosophical Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in everything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .

— Vladimir Putin

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their…

— Raymond Pettibon

We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.

— Robert Gottlieb

The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless…

— Harrison Salisbury

In the soul of a Russian person there is always a drive toward some kind of lofty moral ideal, lofty moral values. That definitely…

— Vladimir Putin

It is not what your supporters, friends or your political adversaries call you that matters. What is important is what you think you must…

— Vladimir Putin

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

“At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about…

— Masha Gessen

The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.

— Valentina Matviyenko

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay the utmost…

— Vladimir Putin