Quotes by russian authors

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Everywhere Clear Lot Thinkers

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

War Civilization Well Western Western Civilization Forever May Bury Next

Every night, whisper 'peace' in your husband's ear. Andrei A. Gromyko

Peace Husband Every Whisper Your Ear Every Night Night

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. Anton Chekhov

Out Ability Including Brings University

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. Ayn Rand

Cowardice Than Conformist Lower Fashionable Level

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. Boris Pasternak

Love Marriage Love Is Strong Weakness Only Sacrament Contain Anniversary

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world. Boris Pasternak

Wonderful World Saw Would Understood Erupt Wonderful Things Explosion Things

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky. Boris Yeltsin

Communism Sky About Idea Pie Talk Just

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. Catherine the Great

Politics Guided Ruler Circumstances Must Capable Conjecture

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and a shortened period of mental assimilation. Constantin Stanislavski

Nothing Prolonged Mental Attention Talent Period Shortened Assimilation

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. Emma Goldman

Time Great Law Beginning Stationary Great Idea Chariot Idea Within How Conditions Fixed Wheel Regardless Place Which Us Binds Ever

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. Igor Stravinsky

Merit Also Duck Hear Hears Effort Listen Just

Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune. Igor Stravinsky

Spend Harp Out Percent Tune Tuning Lives Playing

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. Isaiah Berlin

Childish Philosophers Adult Questions Persist Asking Who

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart. Mikhail Bakunin

Man Heart He Economically Intellect Privileged Politically Whether Depraved

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary. Mikhail Bakunin

Revolution Reactionary Makes Anyone After Plans Who

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. Mikhail Bakunin

Liberty Vice Versa State Individual Individual Liberty Versa Ceases Begins Where Vice

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being. Mikhail Bakunin

My mother carried me for 10 months. I asked her 'Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn't make me a beautiful face?' and mother told me, 'My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.' Mstislav Rostropovich

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. Rosa Luxemburg

Class Too Proletariat Rising Bourgeois Historical Undoubtedly Domination Against Capital Working Working-Class Socialist Grave Necessity

The very action of the proletariat is a determining factor in history. And although we can no more jump over the stages of historical development than a man can jump over his shadow, nevertheless, we can accelerate or retard that development. Rosa Luxemburg

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. Sophie Swetchine

Dignity Enemy Our Constant Vanity