Russian Society Quotes

Russian children typically hear racist and ethnic slurs against Caucasus natives at home before hearing it on the streets.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay the utmost attention to our common moral values and consolidate Russian society on this basis. I think that this is an absolute priority.

Only in the Fall of 1924 did [Joseph] Stalin discover that it is especially Russia, as distinguished from other countries, which can by its own forces build up a socialist society.

I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

Reduced... to a crude formula, the Russian tragedy is precisely the tragedy of a society in which literature turned out to be the prerogative of the minority.

I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

There's a view in Russian society that there are 'male professions' and 'female professions.' The women should be looking after the home and children. It makes me sad. But the only thing you can do is fight it.

I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.

Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed.

Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

The downfall of democratic institutions in Russia doesn't add to the self-confidence of either [Vladimir] Putin or his friends, as the loss of power could lead to repercussions in Russian society.

We have published about 800,000 documents of various kinds that relate to Russia. Most of those are critical; and a great many books have come out of our publications about Russia, most of which are critical.

I've been going to Russia since 1979. I've been going quite frequently, and I've always had a wonderful rapport with the Russian audiences and with the Russian people.

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

I don't look at Putin as a friend. I don't look at Russia. And I am very skeptical of what they're doing, their intentions. There are a lot of good people in Russia that don't have any say whatsoever. And they're starting to basically express their frustration, and starting marching, and hopefully getting their point across. So we've got to make sure that we put the hurt on the oligarchs, all the money, the way the money flows through Russia, and the people that benefit by it.

Putin has big plans for Russia...Hats off to the Russians. I think I would just get along very well with Vladimir Putin.

Russia right now is searching for its soul. It is trying to figure out what it is.

You cannot understand Russia if you look at her through Western eyes.

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

Not too many people out there are interested in Russia so much that they really want to watch things about Russia and only about Russia.

Most Russians believe they've never met an LGBT person in their lives. Also they immediately see LGBT people as 'other,' lending to the success of singling the group out as a 'problem.'