American spirit Quote by Leo Pevsner

“Everything is PR” has become the favorite phrase of the new Russia; my Moscow peers are filled with a sense that they are both…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“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

There's not a whole lot of similarity between the two societies, Russian and American. There are similarities behind psychological forces. One thing we can…

— Masha Gessen

There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and…

— Paullina Simons

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.

— Lee Harvey Oswald

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic,…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“The most basic, most rudimentary spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, ever-present and unquenchable, everywhere and in everything.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .

— Vladimir Putin

“Russia used to be great, a nation of philosophers, brilliant thinkers, artists, and scientists. Not anymore. It hasn’t been great for a long time,…

— Penny Reid