Citizens Quote by Vladimir Sorokin Download Open image “Everyone in Russia must awaken the citizen within himself.” — Vladimir Sorokin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Citizens Russia
In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
“Each person has his own manner of waking in the morning after a drunken orgy, and as nothing is unknown to a Soviet citizen, so there is nothing strange in the fact that one Soviet citizen wakes up in one way, another so, and a third prefers not to awaken, but lies with face to the wall and eyes closed,… — Valentin Kataev Copy Share
Russia's not too great about cooperating with us when there are criminals inside their borders, but all of then like to travel. And so if they travel grabbing them and locking and putting handcuffs on them to send a message that that's not a freebie. — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share
The Russian Federation's practice of instant citizenship, whereby Russian passports are distributed willy-nilly to ethnic Russians abroad so they can be 'protected' in their… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of majority.… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I don't understand why every single person in Congress isn't standing up and going, "He [Donald Trump] is in bed with Russia." And then… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
I mean, I'm a political figure in Russia for more than 10 years... This is how people in Russia know me. — Ksenia Sobchak Copy Share Image
Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles. — Federica Mogherini Copy Share Image
The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison. — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to Russia is indifference in the West - that is, if it were interested in nothing but oil… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
I am always surprised when I watch the weather report on German television. First they show the map of Europe and then the camera… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
I have Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to thank that a Russian writer can not only write anything he wants, but also publish it. — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
In Russia no one is surprised when an official accepts a bribe while at the same time portraying the state as some sacred entity… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
Putin likes to quote a sentence from Czar Alexander III, who said that Russian has only two allies - the army and the navy.… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression. — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical. — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
“The police ultimately pay the price for poor customer service when citizens become fearful of them.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
The average ordinary citizen can do a lot of different things when it comes to the climate crisis. — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image