Dies Quote by Vasily Grossman

I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be…

— Boris Yeltsin

“I was involuntarily struck by the aptitude which the Russian displays for accommodating himself to the customs of the people in whose midst he…

— Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov

“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

“This “holy man,” a peasant from Siberia, had somehow gained entry to the highest levels of St. Petersburg society by preaching that people should…

— Gwendolyn Womack

The Russian soul is a dark place.

— Anonymous

“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

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

— Adam Clarke

“From long experience in places like Afghanistan and Chechnya, Sokolov recognized, in the black jihadist’s movements, a sort of cultural or attitudinal advantage that…

— Neal Stephenson

The Russian Grim Reaper is here. -Alexei

— Bad Boys 2

“To survive and be happy, Russians have so much to bury, to willfully ignore. Small wonder that the intensity of their pleasures and indulgences…

— Owen Matthews

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as…

— Charles Spurgeon

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

— D. H. Lawrence