Creativity Quote by Andrei Amalrik

My hypothesis is that for people who are both trained and inclined to think in rigorously logical ways, it is particularly difficult to adapt…

— Masha Gessen

“When reason, common sense, and decency are assaulted often enough, then personality is crippled, and human intelligence disintegrates or is warped. The barrier between…

— Frank Ellis

“[I]n the interests of our common tasks, we must sometimes overlook their stupidities,” one Soviet official explained in 1973.”

— John Lewis Gaddis

“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

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most…

— Richard Perle

“So you were dissidents? You believed in finishing the USSR?''No. It's not like that. You just speak several languages at the same time, all…

— Peter Pomerantsev

The creative mind is intelligence in action in the world.

— Andrea Dworkin

“indeed Soviet officials frequently complained about the “dependent” habits of Homo Sovieticus, his lack of initiative, and his stubborn expectation”

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

“The more mindless the task, the higher probability of subconscious disruption can stimulate creativity.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Yurii Andreievich kept trying to get up and go. The commissar's naïveté embarrassed him, but the sly sophistication of the commandant and his aide—two…

— Boris Pasternak

Our problem was that in the American approach to Soviet affairs policy has oscillated between people who take an essentially psychological approach and people…

— Henry A. Kissinger

People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret…

— Vladimir Putin