Quotes by russian authors

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.' Ayn Rand

Love You First Say Must Able Love You

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever. Vladimir Lenin

Will Give Years Forever Child Us Bolshevik

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism. Vladimir Lenin

Our Atheism Propaganda Necessarily Program

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. Leo Tolstoy

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. Ayn Rand

Government Man Rights Legal Dangerous Monopoly Threat Physical Physical Force Potentially Disarmed Most Force Legally Holds Victims Against Use

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy

Art Feeling Handicraft Artist Experienced Transmission

The press is our chief ideological weapon. Nikita Khrushchev

Our Press Weapon Ideological Chief

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. Vladimir Lenin

Inflation Bourgeoisie Way Between Crush Grind Them Taxation

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. Nikita Khrushchev

Build Politicians Promise Rivers Over Same Bridges Even

The most violent element in society is ignorance. Emma Goldman

Ignorance Society Most Element Violent

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves. Vladimir Putin

Fight Corruption Those Clean Themselves Should Who

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Privacy Soul People Invaded Refuge Modest Sarcasm Last

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. Fyodor Dostoevsky

World Unsaid Come Because Left Unhappiness Much Things

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. Ayn Rand

Savage Freedom Privacy Man Progress Men Free Society Setting Ruled Tribe Laws Civilization Toward His Existence Process Public Whole

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. Ayn Rand

Success Best Opportunity Ladder Stepping Climbed Success Is

To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Helena Blavatsky

Depression Time Man Ignorance Law Wait Enthusiasm Action Other Results Put Wisely Periods Tides Hand Accord Repose Patiently Act

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy

Family Happy Unhappy Own Way Another Families Resemble Each

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. Leo Tolstoy

Life Impossible Knowing Without Am Why Here

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo Tolstoy

Work God You Name Look Around Cease Stop Your Moment

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. Ayn Rand

Service You Man Sacrifice Master Collecting Someone Only Sacrificial Masters Being Where Speaking Speaks Reason Who Stands Served Slaves