#russians

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

#let us #russian #russians #thing #us

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

#between #british #british actors #choose #decide

Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional ↗

— Russian

#mental-health #russians #truth #ussr #mental-health

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#destroy #education #invented #russians #something

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#knew #me #off #read #russians

As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#as far as #buy #concerned #dependent #far

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#democracy #distorted #economy #i #i think

Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn't want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#anymore #bordering #close #could #had

I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We can't change what is past. We can't blame them for what their parents have done. We never hated them. They didn't destroy us that bad. ↗

— Carmen Kass

#bad #blame #change #destroy #done

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. ↗

— James Thurber

#between #brutal #decadence #difference #our