Russia Quotes
Most popular Russia quotes
![The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian. - George F. Kennan quote.](/img/q/26/24426A-the-best-thing-we-can-do-if-we-want-russians-george-f-kennan.png)
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
![Russia, Russia — unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed for your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. - George F. Kennan quote.](/img/q/27/24427A-russia-russia-unwashed-backward-appealing-russia-so-ashamed-your-own-george-f-kennan.png)
Russia, Russia — unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed for your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit.
Comrades, this man has a nice smile, but he's got iron teeth.
The most unpredictable thing in the USSR is the past.
![Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management. - Mikhail Gorbachev quote.](/img/q/30/24430A-without-glasnost-there-is-not-and-there-cannot-be-democratism-mikhail-gorbachev.png)
Without glasnost there is not, and there cannot be, democratism, the political creativity of the masses and their participation in management.
![Tell the premier that for a party of mine, no one needs to carry a card. Just an invitation. - Elsa Maxwell quote.](/img/q/31/24431A-tell-the-premier-that-for-a-party-mine-no-one-elsa-maxwell.png)
Tell the premier that for a party of mine, no one needs to carry a card. Just an invitation.
![I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. - Winston Churchill quote.](/img/q/32/24432A-i-cannot-forecast-to-you-the-action-russia-it-is-winston-churchill.png)
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
![Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped. - Vladimir Nabokov quote.](/img/q/33/24433A-ideas-in-modern-russia-are-machine-cut-blocks-coming-solid-vladimir-nabokov.png)
Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.
![Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. - Clement Atlee quote.](/img/q/08/28408A-russian-communism-is-the-illegitimate-child-karl-marx-catherine-great-clement-atlee.png)
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
![The whole of Russia is our orchard. - Anton Chekhov quote.](/img/q/28/39128A-the-whole-of-russia-is-our-orchard-anton-chekhov.png)
The whole of Russia is our orchard.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
![Don't you ever forget what's divine in the Russian soul—and that's resignation. - Joseph Conard quote.](/img/q/30/39130A-dont-you-ever-forget-whats-divine-russian-soul-thats-resignation-joseph-conard.png)
Don't you ever forget what's divine in the Russian soul—and that's resignation.
![The Russians train; they do not dare educate. - Max Lerner quote.](/img/q/31/39131A-the-russians-train-they-do-not-dare-educate-max-lerner.png)
The Russians train; they do not dare educate.
![The so-called new Russian man is characterized by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. - Ryszard Kapuscinski quote.](/img/q/32/39132A-the-so-called-new-russian-man-is-characterized-by-his-ryszard-kapuscinski.png)
The so-called new Russian man is characterized by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom.
Russia's a little bit like a critically ill patient. You have to get up every day and take the pulse and hope that nothing catastrophic happened the night before.