480 Quotes About Russia

Mi consenta di chiederle come può l'uomo governare se non solo non può fare un piano di qualunque tipo, fosse pure per un tempo breve fino al ridicolo, diciamo mille anni, ma non può garantire nemmeno il proprio domani.

Beh, è veramente interessante", disse il professore sobbalzando per la risata, "che qui da voi, quale che sia la cosa di cui si parli, non esista niente".

I gatti che correvano qua e là intorno alla veranda avevano un'aria mattutina.

At the center of all that is Russia - of its culture, its psychology, and, perhaps, its destiny - stands the Kremlin, a walled fortress a thousand years old and four hundred miles from the sea. Physically speaking, its walls are no longer high enough to fend off attack, and yet, they still cast a shadow across the entire country.

Chiedere spiegazioni equivale a cercar grane. Sotto questo aspetto il paese non cambierà mai: da straniero è meglio se non t’impicci di come vanno le cose.

President Putin declared a holiday to give couples time off to make babies, and on one Valentine's Day he urged couples to do their patriotic duty and procreate.

The Russian Intelligentsia is a quite special and peculiar thing; as a spiritual and a social form it existed only in Russia. The Intelligentsia was an idealistic class, a class of people wholly influenced by ideas and ready to face prison, hard labour and death for the sake of their ideas

I admired the way Anton Pavlovich didn’t seem so much interested in telling a story as in conveying a nastroeniye – a mood or atmosphere. Anton Pavlovich is the master of nastroeniye, Lyudmila Aleksandrovna had told me, and he certainly was, capturing in his writing the essence of late nineteenth-century Russia.

if you take Russians individually, one by one, they are the most honest people on Earth. They are so direct, so straightforward, they just can’t lie. Not in their genes. Russians can’t do hypocrisy, not like Westerners. That’s why they come across as rude. It’s not rudeness. It’s fucking honesty. But, shit, when it comes to the public sphere, that’s another story. Everything in this country is a big fucking lie