Affair Quote by Joseph Brodsky

“For us, persecution is like the sun coming up in the east. It happens all the time. It's the way things are. There is…

— Nik Ripkin

I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then.

— Roy Bennett

I am not a follower of Moscow, but its victim.

— Fidel Castro

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why…

— Anton Yelchin

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

— D. H. Lawrence

There's the hypothesis that things just keep happening to Russians, things that keep turning them into the same kind of subjects, as opposed to…

— Masha Gessen

“Overt persecution is a daily threat to millions of Christians around the world. Visit Persecution.org to read about current examples of such cases and…

— Mark Driscoll

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

— Frank Moore Colby

To be in conflict with the authorities is one thing. We Russian writers have got used to that. But to be in conflict with…

— Svetlana Alexievich

What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.

— Joseph Brodsky

We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we…

— Ivan Turgenev

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov