Hard-hearted Quote by Alexander Pushkin

“The great writer was mortally afraid of the rising generation of young revolutionaries, and imagining, through his ignorance of things, that they held the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation…

— Alexsandr I. Solzhenitsn

“I suddenly realised that the devout Russian people no longer needed priests to pray them into heaven. On earth they were building a kingdom…

— John Reed

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

— Anonymous

“He was a mostly mild man with a weakness for passion, a suburban father burdened with the heart of a Russian hero without any…

— Suzanne Berne

“But really, why should you distress yourself? Whoever stirs up the past — out with his eye! Who is not a sinner before God…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

“Who are you, Yakov, Moses himself? If you don’t hear His voice so let Him hear yours. ‘When prayers go up blessings descend.’” “Scorpions…

— Bernard Malamud

“In Russia, meanwhile, dedicated young people kept trying to kill the tsar.”

— Ian Frazier

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

“The one thing I learned is that the Russians are some of the most cunning people on earth. They never do anything without a…

— David Baldacci

“They are all blinded and stunned by him,he's a God for them -- greater than a God,because people who believe in God have a…

— Anatoli Rybakov