Russian Quotes

489 Russian quotes by 377 unique authors

The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful state, regardless of… — Harrison Salisbury
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. — Karl Liebknecht
Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia,… — David Duke
I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a… — Ronnie Dunn
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… — Klaus Fuchs
I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company. — Michael Ealy
We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates. — Jean-Claude Juncker
The Jews, I find, are very, very selfish. They care not how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get murdered or mistreated as… — Harry S. Truman
Do you know what ‘Sputnik’ means in Russian? ‘Travelling companion’. I looked it up in a dictionary not long ago. Kind of a strange coincidence… — Haruki Murakami
Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally.… — Bela Karolyi
Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one… — Mstislav Rostropovich
I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy. — Daniel Silva
I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my… — Sebastian Arcelus
I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with… — Kevin A. Ford
It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics. — Alexander Lebedev
A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?" — Yip Harburg
When you do a television show in the States, you get the pilot, and then it's the great unknown. That's the way it is. It's… — Jeremy Piven
Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms. — William J. Clinton
The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet,… — Marc Chagall
Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the… — James P. Cannon
Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than… — Richard Lugar
Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society. — Vladimir Putin

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377 authors contributed a total of 489 Russian Quotes, led by these top contributors: