#russian

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#literature #nikolai-gogol #russian-literature #inspirational

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. ↗

— George Orwell

#political-satire #quthoritarianism #russian-revolution #virtue

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE ↗

— George Orwell

#orwell #russian-revolution #satire #satire

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#assume #assumption #certainly #coat #crook

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

— Marc Almond

#freedom #long #new #platform #public

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great. ↗

— Clement Attlee

#child #communism #great #illegitimate #karl

No, my family is Russian, Georgian, via Ellis Island. ↗

— Mitch Kapor

#family #georgian #island #russian #via

We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space. ↗

— Lincoln Davis

#continue #every #example #flights #follow

Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not? ↗

— Queen Latifah

#cold #cold war #had #i #i remember

So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage. ↗

— Jared Leto

#annoying #cage #change #director #dismay