“Football is the best, is the biggest sport in the world. It is the biggest family in the world is the football. The same passion you have here in Turkey, we have in Brazil, they have in Russia, they have in Germany, they have... you know football is the only sport where you put people together, you…”— Pele, global-leaders.tv
“Why do you think Vladimir Putin is riding around Russia on a horse with no shirt on? It's because some girl rejected him in high school.”— Justin W. Lo, Ryan Decker, Dan Jeannotte, imdb.com
“How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that all men are created equal. We now practically read it all men are created equal, except negroes…”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that all men are created equal. We now pra…”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”— Abraham Lincoln, abrahamlincolnonline.org
“America has grown by expansion in a practical vacuum; the pioneers of the West had to overcome terrific natural obstacles, but negligible human resistance. The Russia of today had to conquer not only natural but human difficulties: she had to break up the rotten system of the Czars and to assimilate…”— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org
“After all, despite the universal and unanimous assumption that both powers—Russia and the United States—already have stockpiled more nuclear weaponry than is necessary to vaporize the entire planet, each power continues to build, improve and enlarge its terrifying arsenal. For the first time in hist…”— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org
“Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world—to an individual or to a nation. If we continue to fear the Russians, and if they continue to fear us, then we’re both in big trouble.”— Frank Sinatra, reprints.longform.org
“For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, en.wikiquote.org
“Here is a riddle not for us contemporaries to figure out: Why is Germany allowed to punish its evildoers and Russia is not? What kind of disastrous path lies ahead of us if we do not have the chance to purge ourselves of that putrefaction rotting inside our body? What, then, can Russia teach the wor…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: 'Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.' Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“I jokingly told my friend I was collecting the corpses of past emperors of Russia and dumping them into a giant ravine, but he thought I was serious and asked what was wrong with me. I guess he just doesn't understand tsar chasm.”— brusque-lee, reddit.com
“Once we have overthrown the capitalists, crushed the resistance of these exploiters with the iron hand of the armed workers, and smashed the bureaucratic machinery of the modern state, we shall have a splendidly-equipped mechanism, freed from the ‘parasite’, a mechanism which can very well be set go…”— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.org
“The petty-bourgeois democrats, such as our Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, and also their twin brothers, all the social-chauvinists and opportunists of Western Europe, expect just this ‘more’ from universal suffrage. They themselves share, and instil into the minds of the people, the false…”— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.org
“The rise of political awareness with Russian youth could be read as part of the global political awakening.”— Anastasiia Fedorova, i-d.vice.com
“I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting, and so I thought it really important to document.”— James Comey, nytimes.com
“It's a good thing Russia doesn't exist anymore.”— Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky, Michael Scott, Steve Carell, amazon.com
“Toska: A sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without a specific cause; a longing with nothing to long for.”— Russian Saying, amazon.com