Russia Quotes - Page 24

• Pharisaism became Talmudism...But the spirit of the Ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. When the Jew...studies the Talmud, he is actually repeating the arguments used in the Palestinian academies. From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered.

  Louis Finkelstein

  Europe, France, Spain

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• Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

  David Reuben

  Mouths, West, Dollars

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• There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.

  John Bright

  Two, Europe, Common Sense

  1878 Speech, Birmingham, 13 Jan.

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• Having lived in a collapsed empire before - I lived in Russia right after the Soviet Union collapsed - you can see a lot of the classic signs of an empire that's on its way out.

  Matt Taibbi

  Unions, Empires, Way

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2008.

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• It's no accident that Cinderella has been in the culture for thousands of years, and in cross cultures. I've traveled a bit recently, and in Russia, they completely believe they own this tale. And in Italy, they feel it absolutely is part of who they are. There is a timeless web to it.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Believe, Years, Culture

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 16, 2015.

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• When I fly to Chile to surf or go snowboarding in Russia or some other adventure, I try to include the family when I can and go see friends along the way.

  Laird Hamilton

  Adventure, Snowboarding, Trying

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 08, 2014.

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• If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis which the people will need to continue a most primitive existence. On the contrary, it will be better to destroy things ourselves because this nation will have proved to be the weaker one and the future will belong solely to the stronger eastern nation [Russia]. Besides, those who remain after the battle are only the inferior ones, for the good ones have been killed.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Fate, People

  "Enter the Bunker". "The History Place: Defeat of Hitler", www.historyplace.com. 2010.

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• The fight against Jewish world Bolshevization requires a clear attitude toward Soviet Russia. You cannot drive out the Devil with Beelzebub.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Fighting, Devil

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.

  Lilia Shevtsova

  Color, Century, Method

  Lilia Shevtsova (2010). “Putin's Russia”, p.64, Carnegie Endowment

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• Russia's increased Arctic presence. The Arctic has vast natural resources and security value, and Russia is drastically increasing its footprint in the region.

  Don Young

  Footprint, Natural, Arctic

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• Vladimir Putin and Russia. 'When a bear wakes up from hibernation, he doesn't eat a few blueberries and then go back to sleep.' They have their eyes on Eastern Europe, and if NATO is not willing to stand up forcefully to this threat today, it will only become more difficult to do so down the road.

  Seth Moulton

  Sleep, Eye, Europe

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• If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we'd now be speaking Russian.

  Edward Teller

  Bombs, Firsts, Has Beens

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• When the men in Russia foul up, they are dismisses, sometimes losing their necks. But we protect those who fail and press them to the government bosom.

  Hyman Rickover

  Men, Necks, Losing

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• Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Order, Boss

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• In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.

  Lyudmila Alexeyeva

  Zero, Political, Trials

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

  Lyudmila Alexeyeva

  Compassion, Long, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In Russia an authoritarian leader is running the country. You can't fight Putin with elections because he controls them. That's why demonstrations are the most effective approach. Unfortunately Russia has sunk to this primitive level.

  Alexei Navalny

  Running, Country, Fighting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Since Russia has the largest number of illegal immigrants, second only to the US, and immigrants from Central Asia bring in drugs, I'm calling for a visa requirement for all those wonderful people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

  Alexei Navalny

  Uzbekistan, Numbers, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Xenophobia is fairly widespread in Russia.

  Alexei Navalny

  Xenophobia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia.

  Alexei Navalny

  Males, Domain

  "Pussy Riot Trial 'Reminds Me of the Inquisition'". Interview with Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. August 20, 2012.

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• Our political leaders often talk about Russia taking an independent path, but they like to live like people in the West.

  Alexei Navalny

  Independent, People, Leader

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• Russia has the largest reserves of natural resources, including iron and natural gas. The market will develop in the long term, and the VW Group will benefit from it.

  Martin Winterkorn

  Iron, Long, Groups

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• When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the objection that, after all the devastating losses we had experienced, it would be quite sufficient to have just one task: the preservation of a dying people.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Loss, Ideas, Water

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I returned to Russia in 1994, the Western world and its states were practically being worshipped. Admittedly, this was caused not so much by real knowledge or a conscious choice, but by the natural disgust with the Bolshevik regime and its anti-Western propaganda.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Real, Choices, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Panic, West, Economy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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