Quote by Anatoli Rybakov

“The smart tyrant flatters the people with words,while with deeds he destroys them.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“And Eisenstein was doing it,too!As a young boy Sasha had seen his Battleship Potemkin in the Khudoshestvennyi Theater on the Arbat Sqaure.The cashiers,ticket-takers,cloak room…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Throughout history people blamed their sufferings on everyone and anyone except God.You don't criticize God,you thank Him.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“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

“The golden stock of the Russian Revolution.' Where is this golden stock today? These people have come to replace them. From the top to…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Everyone was driven to write.It was Gorky's fault--he had announced that "literature should be written by working people",and showed with his own example that…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“There was something religious in grandmother's face, not in any sanctimoniously devout or ecstatic sense,but a look full of religious feeling, serenity and resignation.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Sometimes the bigger the apartment, the harder it is to find room to put up an extra person for the night.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Someone said that revolutions are begun by idealists and ended by the scoundrels who destroy the idealists.”

— Anatoli Rybakov

“Friends and acquaintances in this day and age don't write at all, or if they do it's only to let you know they're still…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“There was snow on the veranda, and on his orders the snow had not been removed. If there were no tracks in the snow,…

— Anatoli Rybakov

“...For all the profound human modesty of Comrade Stalin,he will have to tolerate our outpourings of love and loyalty to him[applause],because not only we,who…

— Anatoli Rybakov