Fitness Quote by Stuart Isacoff

“Though his rivals at the competition were well trained, there was something different about Van’s art. For many in the audience it represented the…

— Stuart Isacoff

“Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.”

— Mal Peet

“The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what had been…

— Masha Gessen

“In the Soviet Union there is freedom of speech. But it's not written anywhere that one should be free after his speech.”

— Sergey Grechishkin

“The saddest instance of the lack of real freedom, arising from the lack of real knowledge, is revealed to us in Leo Tolstoy's latest…

— Ivan Turgenev

“Freedom is of no use without taste and without the ordinary competence to follow the particular laws of what we have been given to…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Freedom lost to any regime, be it communist or liberal, steals the very breath of democracy”

— James William Steven Parker

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists…

— Tom Stoppard

“It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I believe that renunciation of the Soviet Union was an expression of the free will of the Russian people.

— Vladislav Surkov

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

— Ronald Reagan

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore