Drinking tea Quote by Rod Dreher

“God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not…

— Alexander Pushkin

“I suddenly realised that the devout Russian people no longer needed priests to pray them into heaven. On earth they were building a kingdom…

— John Reed

“Liberalism has been degraded into liberality. Men have tried to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb. The Jacobin could tell you…

— G.K. Chesterton

“In Moscow, priests are in love with their standing. They eat fat meat and preach poverty to the miserable.”

— Katherine Arden

“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

“By sanctifying History in order to discredit God, Marxism has merely rendered Him more peculiar and more haunting. You can stifle every impulse in…

— E. M. Cioran

“In this way, the Church was a true reflection of the whole of Russian society. The KGB and the Russian people had penetrated each…

— Oliver Bullough

“...the Russian church had lost in its first decade of 'freedom' what Soviet believers had managed to hold on to under communisn for most…

— Nik Ripkin

“The great writer was mortally afraid of the rising generation of young revolutionaries, and imagining, through his ignorance of things, that they held the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But really, why should you distress yourself? Whoever stirs up the past — out with his eye! Who is not a sinner before God…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that will come…

— John Steinbeck

“I have found that the average Russian holds the United States and the American people in very high regard. Many Russians also remain deeply…

— Glenn Meade