Belgium Quote by Henry Kissinger

The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“No two nations differ more from each other than the Russians and Finlanders. The former are as active, acute and sensible, as the latter…

— William Thomson

“Peter returned to Russia determined to remold his country along Western lines. The old Muscovite state, isolated and introverted for centuries, would reach out…

— Robert K. Massie

“Europe was already Europe.”

— Orson Scott Card

“Peter didn’t want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.”

— David James Duncan

“But with Peter everything had to be shared; everything gone into.”

— Virginia Woolf

“1725. The year of The Tour Seasons. The year that Peter the Great became less so, in that he died.”

— Stephen Fry

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

— William J. Clinton

“planets and even galaxies, but in the meantime the modern economy has had to find a better method of expanding.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“To understand Russia today, you must understand the trauma of the nineties. Everything we had, everything we had been told, was swept away. We…

— Daniel Silva

“you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you. At first there were the Russians; then there were all…

— Ernest Hemingway

“At present, the developed countries condescend to the developing ones.”

— George Soros