I cannot predict Russia's actions. She is a riddle wrapped in mystery and immersed in mystery. But perhaps the key still exists. This key is Russia's national interests...
Winston Churchill
"If I fall asleep and wake up in a hundred years and they ask me what is happening in Russia now, I will answer - they drink and steal."
Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
For us, Russians with a soul, one Russia is original, one Russia truly exists; everything else is only a relation to it, thought, Providence. We can think and dream in Germany, France, Italy, but we can only do business in Russia.
Nikolai Karamzin
Not random distribution of land, not calming the rebellion with handouts - the rebellion is extinguished by force, but the recognition of immunity private property and, as a consequence, which follows from this, the creation of small personal land ownership ... - these are the tasks that the government considered and still considers the implementation of the question of the existence of the Russian state.
Pyotr Stolypin
The Russian is not the one who bears the Russian surname, but the one who loves Russia and considers it his fatherland.
Anton Denikin
Above all Russias there is one unforgettable Russia. Above all love there is one universal human love. Above all beauties there is one beauty, leading to the knowledge of the Cosmos.
Nicholas Roerich
Give the state twenty years of peace, internal and external, and you will not recognize today's Russia.
Pyotr Stolypin
The Russian breaks out abroad in some kind of intoxication - his heart is wide open, his tongue is untied - the Prussian gendarme in Lautzagen seems to us a man, Konigsberg - a free city.
Alexander Herzen
The essence of a Russian person is determined, on the one hand, by the expectation of a miracle, and on the other hand, by the conviction that everything is decided not by force, but by compassion, kindness, contemplation, and responsiveness.
Nikita Mikhalkov
Russia abruptly moved from slavery to imaginary freedoms. We shit where we live. In the entrances - dirt, in the elevators - urine. Probably, this attitude forms our serf thinking.
Oleg Yankovsky
Russia - great country with an unpredictable past!
Mikhail Zadornov
The system in which we live has no name at all.
Mikhail Zadornov
Why do we all call Eurasia? Eurasia is when there is more Europe than Asia. And we have more Asia than Europe. Therefore, we are not Eurasia, we are Aziopa.
Mikhail Zadornov
All Russia is drinking Hamlet.
Fazil Iskander
They say that there is such an amazing country in the world that used to be a breadwinner, and now it has become a feeder.
Russian life is both dirty and weak, but somehow sweet. This is the last thing you are afraid to lose, otherwise it would be “for nothing”. You are afraid of losing something unique and something that will not happen again. The best will be repeated, but not this. And I want "such" ...
Literature 5 - 11 grade
Russian language
To treat language somehow means to think somehow: inaccurately, approximately, incorrectly.
(A. N. Tolstoy).
There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would be no exact expression in our language. You can do wonders with the Russian language!
(K. G. Paustovsky).
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is enriched with astonishing speed.
(Maksim Gorky).
You marvel at the treasures of our language: every sound is a gift; everything is granular, large, like pearls themselves, and really, another name is more precious than the thing itself.
(N.V. Gogol).
(I. S. Turgenev).
(K. G. Paustovsky).
Language, our magnificent language. The expanse of the river and the steppe in it, In it the screams of an eagle and the roar of a wolf, The chant, and the ringing, and the pilgrimage incense.
(K. D. Balmont).
Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight the thought, to bring the words into the correct ratio and to give the phrase lightness and the right sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notation. They firmly hold the text and do not allow it to crumble.
(K. G. Paustovsky).
(M. V. Lomonosov).
Russian language in skillful hands and in experienced lips - handsome, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy.
(A. I. Kuprin).
In days of doubt, in days of painful reflections on the fate of my homeland - you are my only support and support, oh great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language!., you can’t believe that such a language was not given to a great people!
(I. S. Turgenev).
(M. Gorky).
(N.V. Gogol).
Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilful writers, is rapidly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes according to the arbitrariness of everyone and everyone.
(A. S. Pushkin).
Sayings of great people about the Russian language.
Russian language!
For thousands of years this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent,
poetic and labor tool of his social life, your thoughts, your feelings,
their hopes, their anger, their great future.
A. V. Tolstoy
Let there be honor and glory to our language, which, in its native wealth, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud, majestic river - it rustles and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, murmurs in a gentle stream and sweetly flows into the soul, forming everything measures that are only
in fall and rise human voice!
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
True love to one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language.
Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilled writers,
tends to fall rapidly. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates.
Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes according to the arbitrariness of everyone and everyone.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like pearls themselves, and, really, there is another name for the most precious thing itself.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
In days of doubt, in days of painful reflections on the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, O great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! Without you - how not to fall into despair at the sight of everything that happens at home?
But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight the thought, to bring the words into the correct ratio and to give the phrase lightness and the right sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notation.
They firmly hold the text and do not allow it to crumble.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
Language is the history of the people. Language is the way of civilization and culture. That is why the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle hobby.
nothing to do, but an urgent need.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
Use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word,
- means to offend both common sense and common taste.
The Russian language in skillful hands and in experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed;
but no one who is afraid of deep water can come there.
Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych
Prostrate in the enrichment of the mind and in the decoration of the Russian word.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, it is a property handed down to us by our predecessors! Treat this mighty weapon with respect; in the hands of the skilful, it is able to perform miracles.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Only by assimilating the original material to the maximum possible perfection, that is, native language, we will be able to be in the same perfection
learn a foreign language, but not before.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I do not like words with an abundance of hissing and whistling sounds, I avoid them.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The word of the Briton will respond with the knowledge of the heart and the wise knowledge of life; the short-lived word of a Frenchman will flash and scatter like a light dandy; intricately invent his own, not accessible to everyone, cleverly thin word, a German; but there is no word that would be so bold, brisk, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and trembling vividly, as aptly said Russian word.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
The language, which the Russian power of a great part of the world commands, in its power has a natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to any European language. And for that there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection, which we are surprised at in others.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
Our Russian language, more than all new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching classical languages in its richness, strength, freedom of location, and abundance of forms.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov
That Russian is one of the richest languages in the world,
there is no doubt about it.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
Beauty, majesty, strength and wealth Russian language It is clear enough from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not yet know any rules for compositions, but they hardly thought that they existed or could exist.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
Main character our language consists in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, inner lyrical feelings, "life of a mouse running", a cry of indignation, sparkling pranks and amazing passion.
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
Nothing is so ordinary for us, nothing seems so simple as our speech, but in the very essence there is nothing so surprising, so wonderful, as our speech.
Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev
Among the splendid qualities of our language there is one absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable. It consists in the fact that in its sound it is so diverse that it includes the sound of almost all languages of the world.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
The Russian language opens up to the end in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people "to the bone"
and feels the hidden beauty of our land.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
There is one significant fact: we are on our still
in an unsettled and young language we can convey
the deepest forms of the spirit and thought of European languages.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The natural richness of the Russian language and speech is so great that, without further ado, listening to the time with your heart, in close communication with common man and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket you can become an excellent writer.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin
The Russian language, as far as I can judge of it, is the richest of all European dialects and seems deliberately created to express the subtlest shades. Gifted with wonderful conciseness, combined with clarity, he is content with one word to convey thoughts when another language would require whole phrases for this.
Prosper Merimee
The beauty, grandeur, strength and richness of the Russian language is quite clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not know any rules for compositions, but they hardly thought that they exist or can be.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
Our speech is mostly aphoristic,
distinguished by its compactness, strength.
Maksim Gorky
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is enriched with astonishing speed.
Maksim Gorky
Perception of other people's words, and especially without the need,
there is not an enrichment, but a deterioration of the language.
Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov
I do not consider foreign words good and suitable, if only they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russified ones.
We must protect our rich and beautiful language from corruption.
Nikolai Semenovich Leskov
There is no doubt that the desire to dazzle Russian speech with foreign words without need, without sufficient reason, is disgusting. common sense and sound taste; but it harms not the Russian language and not Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
Our native language should be the main basis for our common education.
and education for each of us.
Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky
We must love and keep those samples of the Russian language,
which we inherited from first-class masters.
Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov
Language is important for a patriot.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
In the attitude of each person to his language, one can absolutely accurately judge not only his cultural level but also about its civic value.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
Language is the history of the people. Language is the way of civilization and culture...
Therefore, the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation with nothing to do, but an urgent need.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
Knowledge of Russian language, - language, which in every possible way deserves study both in itself, for it is one of the most powerful and richest living languages, and for the sake of the literature it reveals, is no longer such a rarity.
Friedrich Engels
Our heavenly beauty will never be trampled on by cattle.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
As a material of literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple -
for which there would be no exact expression in our language.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
To deal with the language somehow means to think somehow:
approximately, inaccurately, incorrectly.
Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Language is an image of everything that existed, exists and will exist - everything that can only be embraced and comprehended by the mental eye of man.
Alexey Fyodorovich Merzlyakov
Language is the confession of the people, His soul and way of life.
Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky
The Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimonies of the foreign aesthetes themselves, is not inferior to Latin either in courage, Greek or in fluency, surpasses all European languages: Italian, Spanish and French, not to mention German.
Gavriil Romanovich Derzhavin
What is language? First of all, it is not only a way to express your thoughts, but also to create your thoughts. Language has the opposite effect.
A person who turns his thoughts, his ideas, his feelings into language...
it is also, as it were, permeated by this mode of expression.
Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy
It's not scary to lie dead under the bullets,
It's not bitter to be homeless,
And we will save you, Russian speech,
Great Russian Word.
We will carry you free and clean,
And we will give to our grandchildren, and we will save from captivity
Forever.
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
But what disgusting bureaucratic language! Based on that position... on the one hand... on the other hand, all this without any need. “Nevertheless” and “to the extent that” the officials composed. I read and spit.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Follow the rule stubbornly: so that words are cramped, and thoughts are spacious.
Nikolay Alekseevich Nekrasov
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in Russian;
everything excites, breathes, lives.
Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov
The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years countless treasures of human thought and experience have accumulated and live forever in the word.
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is enriched with astonishing speed.
Maksim Gorky
The richer the language in expressions and turns, the better for a skilled writer.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
Beware of fancy language. The language should be simple and elegant.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison.
Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov
The language of the people is the best, never fading and forever
the re-blooming flower of his whole spiritual life.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky
The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its drawbacks, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vosh, -vosh, -vosh, -shcha, -shch. On the first page of your story, "lice" crawl into in large numbers: worked, spoke, arrived.
It is quite possible to do without insects.
Maksim Gorky
Charles V, Roman emperor, used to say that Spanish it is proper to speak to God, French to friends, German to enemies, Italian to women. But if he knew the Russian language, then of course he would have added that it was decent for them to speak with everyone, because. I would have found in it the splendor of Spanish, and the vivacity of French, and the strength of German, and the tenderness of Italian, and the richness, and strong figurativeness of Latin and Greek.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
No matter how you say it, the native language will always remain native. When you want to speak to your heart’s content, not a single French word comes into your head, but if you want to shine, then it’s another matter.
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy
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We remember the brightest and famous quotes, thoughts, aphorisms prominent people about Russia and its people.
Alexander III the Peacemaker - Emperor of All Russia, Tsar of Poland and Grand Duke Finnish (1845-1894).
In the whole world we have only two faithful allies - our army and navy. All the rest, at the first opportunity, will take up arms against us.
When the Russian Tsar is fishing, Europe can wait.
Russia - for Russians and in Russian.
Nikolai Berdyaev - Great Russian philosopher (1874-1948)
The Russian people created the most powerful state in the world, greatest empire. From Ivan Kalita, Russia consistently and stubbornly gathered and reached dimensions that stagger the imagination of all the peoples of the world.
No creative historical path is possible without a primordial and spontaneous love for Russia. Our love for Russia, like any love, is arbitrary, it is not love for the qualities and virtues, but this love should be a source of creative creation of the qualities and virtues of Russia. Love for one's people must be creative love, creative instinct. And least of all it signifies enmity and hatred towards other peoples. The path to pan-humanity for each of us lies through Russia.
An infinitely difficult task faced the Russian people - the task of organizing and organizing their vast land. The immensity of the Russian land, the absence of borders and limits, were expressed in the structure of the Russian soul. The landscape of the Russian soul corresponds to the landscape of the Russian land: the same infinity, formlessness, aspiration to infinity, breadth.
Nikolay Gogol - Great Russian writer and playwright (1809-1852).
Thank God first of all for the fact that you are Russian. This path is now open for the Russian, and this path is Russia itself. If only he loves Russian Russia, he will love everything that is in Russia. God Himself is leading us to this love.
You don’t yet love Russia: you only know how to grieve and get irritated by rumors about everything bad that happens in it, all this produces in you only one callous annoyance and despondency. No, this is not yet love, you are far from love, it is only one too distant foreshadowing of it.
If there is only one Russian farmstead left, then Russia will be reborn.
Anton Denikin - Front Commander, General Staff Lieutenant General; later Acting Supreme Ruler of Russia from the side white movement (1872-1947).
The Russian is not the one who bears the Russian surname, but the one who loves Russia and considers it his fatherland.
When peace rests over our poor country, and the all-healing time turns the bloody reality into the distant past, the Russian people will remember those who were the first to rise to defend Russia from the red scourge.
This is Russian, for Russians. When Russia is free, I will give everything to her.
Fedor Dostoevsky - Great Russian writer (1821-1881).
Is it possible that even here they will not allow and will not allow the Russian organism to develop nationally, by its organic strength, but certainly impersonally, servilely imitating Europe? But what to do with the Russian organism then? Do these gentlemen understand what an organism is? Separation, "split" from their country leads to hatred, these people hate Russia, so to speak, naturally, physically: for the climate, for the fields, for the forests, for the order, for the liberation of the peasant, for Russian history, in a word, for everything, hate for everything.
The purpose of the Russian man is, no doubt, pan-European and worldwide. To become a real Russian, to become completely Russian, perhaps, and means only - to become a brother of all people, an all-man, if you like. Our inheritance is universality, and not acquired by the sword, but by the power of brotherhood and our fraternal striving for the reunification of people.
The highest and most characteristic of our people is a sense of justice and a thirst for it.
Mikhail Lomonosov - World famous encyclopedic scientist, rector of the Academic University, academician Imperial Academy sciences and arts in St. Petersburg (1711-1765).
The greatness, power and wealth of the entire state lies in the preservation and reproduction of the Russian people.
The beauty, grandeur, strength and richness of the Russian language are quite clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not know any rules for writing yet, but they hardly thought that there were or could be.
For the common good, and especially for the establishment of sciences in the fatherland, and against my own father, I don’t set myself up for sin ... I dedicated myself to this, so that until my grave I fight against the enemies of Russian sciences, as I have been fighting for twenty years, stood for them from a young age, I will not leave in my old age.
Fyodor Tyutchev - Great Russian poet and diplomat (1803-1873).
You can't understand Russia with the mind, You can't measure it with a common yardstick: She has a special become - In Russia, you can only believe.
If you meet a veteran of the Napoleonic army, remind him of his glorious past and ask who, among all the opponents who fought with him on the battlefields of Europe, was the most worthy of respect, who, after individual defeats, maintained a proud look: you can bet ten against one, what he will call you a Russian soldier. Go through the departments of France where the foreign invasion left its mark in 1814, and ask the inhabitants of these provinces which soldier in the detachments of the enemy troops constantly showed the greatest humanity, the highest discipline, the least hostility to civilians, unarmed citizens - you can put a hundred against one that they will call you a Russian soldier. And if you want to know who was the most unbridled and the most predatory - oh, this is no longer a Russian soldier.
Peter I the Great - The last tsar of all Rus' and the first Emperor of All Russia (1672-1725).
I have a presentiment that the Russians someday, and perhaps in our lifetime, will shame the most enlightened peoples with their successes in the sciences, their tireless work and the majesty of firm and loud glory.
Russian one who loves Russia and serves it!
Alexander Pushkin - Great Russian poet (1799-1837)
Disrespect for ancestors is the first sign of savagery and immorality. It is not only possible, but also necessary, to be proud of the glory of one's ancestors; not to respect it is shameful cowardice.
I am far from delighted with everything that I see around me; ... but I swear on my honor that for nothing in the world I would not want to change my fatherland or have a different history than the history of our ancestors, such as God gave it to us.
Alexander Suvorov - Great Russian commander (1730-1800).
Who loves his Fatherland, he gives best example love for humanity.
Nature produced only one Russia. She has no rivals. We are Russians, we will overcome everything.
The fortress is strong, the garrison is a whole army. But nothing can stand against Russian weapons - we are strong and confident.
The Russian is distinguished by faith, fidelity and reason. In vain will all Europe move on Russia: it will find Thermopylae, Leonidas and its coffin there.
It seems to me that we have begun to forget how to talk about Russia. For the past 25 years, we have been used to listening to Alfred Koch, who called Russia an unnecessary, bankrupt country, and Tatyana Tolstaya, who called Russia nothing more than a "stony fat-ass fool."
However - this is a paradox - people who left a significant mark on the history of Russia spoke completely different words about our country. I present to your attention new article on Rookspert, "quotes about Russia":
Russian statements
Alexander III
Russia has no friends, they are afraid of our hugeness... Russia has only two reliable allies - its army and its navy. (link)
Nikolai Berdyaev
The Russian people created the most powerful state in the world, the greatest empire. From Ivan Kalita, Russia consistently and stubbornly gathered and reached dimensions that stagger the imagination of all the peoples of the world. (link)
Nikolay Gogol
Thank God first of all for the fact that you are Russian. This path is now open for the Russian, and this path is Russia itself. If only he loves Russian Russia, he will love everything that is in Russia. God himself is now leading us to this love. (link)
You don't love Russia yet: you only know how to grieve and get irritated by rumors about everything bad that happens in it, all this produces in you only one callous annoyance and despondency. No, this is not love yet, you are far from love, this is only one too distant foreshadowing of it. ()No, if you really fall in love with Russia, then that short-sighted thought that has now arisen among many honest and even very smart people, that is, as if at the present time they can no longer do anything for Russia and as if she no longer needs them at all; on the contrary, only then will you feel in full force that love is omnipotent and that everything can be done with it. (link)
Eh, trio! bird troika, who invented you? To know that you could only be born among a lively people, in that land that does not like to joke, but spread out half the world as evenly as possible, and go and count the miles until it fills your eyes. (link)
If there is only one Russian farmstead left, then Russia will be reborn. (link)
Is there really such fires in the world, such torments and such a force that would overcome the Russian force! (link)
Anton Denikin
The Russian is not the one who bears the Russian surname, but the one who loves Russia and considers it his fatherland. (link)
Fedor Dostoevsky
In order to judge the moral strength of the people and what they are capable of in the future, one must take into account not the degree of ugliness to which they can temporarily and even at least for the most part be humiliated, but one must take into consideration only that height of spirit to which he can climb when his time comes. For ugliness is a temporary misfortune, always almost dependent on circumstances that preceded and transient, from slavery, from age-old oppression, from callousness, and the gift of generosity is an eternal gift, an elemental gift, born together with the people and all the more honored, if in the course of centuries. slavery, hardship and poverty, he will still survive intact, in the heart of this people. (link)
The purpose of the Russian man is undeniably pan-European and worldwide. To become a real Russian, to become completely Russian, perhaps, and it only means - to become a brother of all people, an all-man, if you like. (link)
Catherine II
The Russian people are a special people in the world, which is distinguished by conjecture, intelligence, strength. (link)
Strength alone strengthens independence. Only if you are ready to fight can you inspire respect for yourself and find allies instead of patrons. (link)
Mikhail Lomonosov
The greatness, power and wealth of the entire state lies in the preservation and reproduction of the Russian people. (link)
Christopher Minich
The Russian state has the advantage over others that it is directly controlled by God himself, otherwise it is impossible to understand how it exists. (link)
Konstantin Paustovsky
Many Russian words themselves radiate poetry, just as gems radiate a mysterious brilliance. (link)
Vladimir Putin
Alexander Pushkin
It is not only possible, but also necessary, to be proud of the glory of one's ancestors, not to respect it is shameful cowardice. (link)
Konstantin Simonov
Russians are a stubborn people, and if it once occurred to them good idea, sooner or later they will carry it out on a truly Russian scale! (link)
Pyotr Stolypin
You, gentlemen, need great upheavals; we need great Russia. (link)
Alexander Suvorov
Whoever loves his Fatherland sets the best example of love for humanity. (link)
Nature produced only one Russia. She has no rivals. We are Russians, we will overcome everything. (link)
The fortress is strong, the garrison is a whole army. But nothing can stand against Russian weapons - we are strong and self-confident. (link)
The Russian is distinguished by faith, fidelity and reason. In vain, all of Europe will move on Russia: it will find Thermopylae, Leonidas and its coffin there. (link)
We are Russians! What a delight!
Wherever a deer passes, a Russian soldier will also pass. Where the deer does not pass, it's all the same Russian soldier. (link)
Ivan Turgenev
Russia can do without each of us, but none of us can do without it. (link)
Take care of the purity of the language as a shrine! Never use foreign words. The Russian language is so rich and flexible that we have nothing to take from those who are poorer than us. (link)
Aliens sayings
Otto von Bismarck
Do not expect that once you take advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russians always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on the Jesuit agreements you signed, supposedly justifying you. They are not worth the paper they are written on. Therefore, it is worth either playing honestly with Russians, or not playing at all. (link)
Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main force of Russia, which is based on millions of Russians ... These latter, even if they are dissected by international treatises, just as quickly reconnect with each other, like particles of a cut piece of mercury ... (link)
Charles de Gaulle
Russian people will never be happy knowing that injustice is happening somewhere. (link)
Dalai Lama
Alexandr Duma
Russian people work tirelessly to transform themselves and those around them from humanity to humanity! (link)
Carl Clausewitz
Russia is not a country that can really be conquered, that is, occupied; at least this cannot be done ... by the forces of modern European states ... Such a country can only be defeated by internal weakness and the action of internal strife. (link)
Friedrich Nietzsche
The strongest and most surprising of all willpower is manifested in the vast middle kingdom, where Europe, as it were, returns to Asia - Russia. There, the power to want has long been laid aside and accumulated, there the will is waiting - it is not known whether the will of denial or the will of affirmation - is waiting in a menacing way in order to, according to the favorite expression of today's physicists, be freed. (link)
For any institutions to arise, there must necessarily be a will that stimulates instinct, illiberal to the point of brilliance - the will to tradition, to authority, to responsibility for entire centuries, to the solidarity of past and future generations ... (link)If this will is present, then something like the Roman Empire will arise, or like Russia - the only country that currently has a future ... (link)
Russia is the opposite of the miserable nervousness of the small European states, for which, with the founding of the "German Empire", a critical time has come. (link)
Theodore Roosevelt
I foresee a tremendous future for Russia. Of course, she will also have to go through certain upheavals and, perhaps, severe upheavals, but all this will pass, and after that Russia will rise and become the stronghold of all of Europe, perhaps the most powerful power in the whole world. (link)
Adam Smith
For the sake of a righteous idea, Russian people work with joy, even when they are imprisoned, and then they do not feel like prisoners, they gain freedom. (link)
Albert Schweitzer
Russian people do not need the materialistic "values" of the West, they do not need the dubious achievements of the East in the field of abstract spirituality, which has nothing to do with reality. (link)
PS. Quotes from our liberals - about Russia, about Russians, about patriots and about the opposition, are right here.
