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- 1 Statements of Russians about the people 1.1 Nikolai Berdyaev
- 1.2 Maxim Zvonarev
- 1.3 Mikhail Genin
- 1.4 Vladimir Kolechitsky
- 1.5 Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 1.6 Vladimir Voinovich
- 1.7 Evgeny Yevtushenko
- 1.8 Fazil Iskander
- 1.9 Vladimir Dal
- 1.10 Nikolay Dobrolyubov
- 2.1 Alphonse Lamartine
- 3.1 Honoré de Balzac
Statements by Russians about the people
Nikolay Berdyaev
Russian religious and political philosopher (1874-1948).
| All nations have an irresistible tendency to crucify their prophets, teachers and great historians.[1] |
Maxim Zvonarev
Author of aphorisms.
| Every nation has a history that suits its imagination.[2] |
Mikhail Genin
Russian comedian (born 1927).
| When will the people be shown such a spectacle that they will stop thinking about their daily bread?[3] |
Vladimir Kolechitsky
Russian journalist, writer (born 1938).
| When people are silenced, they become thinkers.[4] |
Fedor Dostoevsky
Russian writer, thinker, philosopher and publicist (1821-1881).
| The measure of a people is not what it is, but what it considers beautiful and true, for which it sighs.[5] |
Vladimir Voinovich
Russian prose writer, poet and playwright (1932-2018).
| A rally is an event when a lot of people gather and some say what they don’t think, while others think what they don’t say.[6] |
Evgeniy Yevtushenko
Russian poet (1832—2017).
| People - who don't lie to themselves. The people are the enemy of spiritual laziness. Only the one who thinks is the people all the rest are the population.[7] |
Fazil Iskander
Abkhazian and Russian prose writer (1929-2016).
| The people cannot and should not live by a distant goal, because a distant goal always serves as an excuse for immediate fraud.[8] |
Vladimir Dal
Russian writer and lexicographer (1801-1872).
| Neither nickname, nor religion, nor the very blood of ancestors makes a person a member of one or another nationality... Whoever thinks in what language belongs to that people.[9] |
| Only kind and talented people can maintain majestic calm of spirit and humor in any, even the most difficult, circumstances. Proverbs, sayings, jokes, born in the depths of the masses, speak of a healthy, powerful organism. |
Nikolay Dobrolyubov
Literary critic (1836-1861).
| A person who hates another people does not love his own.[10] |
Quotes about best friends
Best friends occupy a special place in our lives. These are people who sometimes know even more about us than we know about ourselves. Quotes about best friends reflect this very accurately.
“A best friend is a person who will tell you everything that he doesn’t like about you, and tell everyone that you are the most wonderful person in the world.”
“A true friend is with you when you are wrong. When you are right, everyone will be with you.”
Mark Twain
“Only the hand of a friend can tear the thorns out of the heart.”
Claude Adrian Helvetius
“Know, your true friend, if shame happens to you, he will cover it, and not hide himself!”
“I don’t need a friend who, agreeing with me on everything, changes views with me, nodding his head, for a shadow does the same thing better.”
“Many treat friends, not friendship.”
“All the honors in this world are not worth one good friend.”
“It is not so difficult to die for a friend as to find a friend who would be worth dying for.”
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
“Only those who are friends, not in words but in deeds, are the ones who would put our shackles on themselves.”
Nosir Khisrow
Statements by foreigners about the people
Alphonse Lamartine
French writer and poet of the romantic movement (1790-1869).
| Anarchy and slavery are two punishing scourges that wait for an opportunity to punish the mistakes of kings or the riot of peoples.[11] |
| The people are the heart of the country; one has only to touch it to discover the treasures of selflessness, resignation, and courage.[12] |
| Peoples are just as susceptible to flattery as tyrants.[13] |
Napoleon
French commander, founder of the First French Empire (1769-1821).
| Military forces are not enough to defend the country, while a country defended by the people is invincible.[14] |
| A people who does not want to feed their own army will soon be forced to feed someone else's.[15] |
| An enlightened people cannot be controlled by half measures; strength, consistency and unity are necessary in all public affairs.[16] |
| Only those who want to deceive the people and control them in their favor can keep them in ignorance.[17] |
Francis Bacon
English philosopher, historian, politician, founder of empiricism (1561-1626).
| Atheism is a thin layer of ice on which one person can walk, but an entire nation will fall into the abyss.[18] |
| The genius, spirit, and character of the people are manifested in their proverbs.[19] |
Lic de Vauvenargues
French philosopher, moralist and writer (1715-1747).
| In the childhood of all nations, as in the childhood of individual people, feeling always preceded reflection and was their first teacher.[20] |
Caleb Colton
English writer, clergyman and art collector (1780–1832).
| With regard to antiquity, the same can be said as with regard to ancestors: nations are proud of the first, individuals - of the last.[21] |
Victor Hugo
French writer, one of the main figures of French romanticism (1802-1885).
| The greatness of a people is not measured by its numbers, just as the greatness of a person is not measured by its height; the only measure is his mental development and his moral level.[22] |
| Educating people means making them better; to educate the people means to increase their morality; to make him literate is to civilize him.[23] |
| The cement that binds nations is a common thought. Peoples can merge into one only when they have a common language, when the same words, like coins of the mind, will circulate among the people and form a common property. And the movement of language, the circulation of words, the generalization of thought is primarily provided by art, poetry, and literature.[24] |
Benjamin Johnson
English poet, playwright, actor and drama theorist (1769-1821).
| The greatest glory of a people lies in its writers.[25] |
David Fink
| Leading a people is easier than moving them.[26] |
Robert de Fleur
French journalist and playwright (1872-1927).
| Democracy is a name given to a people when they need it.[27] |
Sydney Morgan
Irish writer (1781-1959).
| In order to find out the character and morality of the people, read the laws established by them; among them there will be those who will terrify you.[28] |
Benjamin Rumfoord
Anglo-American scientist and inventor, adventurer, statesman and public figure (1753-1814).
| In order to make a people virtuous, it is necessary to make them happy.[29] |
Denis Diderot
French writer and educator (1713-1784).
| It is easier to bring a barbarian people to the highest degree of power than to awaken an enlightened people from a state of slumber. |
| There can be no other true legislator except the people.[30] |
Bertolt Brecht
German playwright (1898-1956).
| If a government is dissatisfied with its people, it must dissolve them and choose a new one.[31] |
Wilhelm Schwebel
German scientist and publicist (1845-1891).
| The history of a people is also its testament.[32] |
| When bread and circuses are bad, people seek satisfaction in faith and the search for historical truth.[33] |
Francois de Chateaubriand
French writer, ultra-royalist and conservative (1768-1848).
| The history of nations is a scale of human misfortunes, the divisions of which are marked by revolutions.[34] |
Georg Hegel
German philosopher (1770-1831).
| History teaches only that it has never taught people anything.[35] |
Pierre Buast
French lexicographer (1765-1824).
| When superstition enters the head of a people, it leaves there a stock of nonsense for many centuries.[36] |
| A people infected with superstition is incurable and becomes the prey of charlatans of all kinds.[37] |
| Whatever the political changes of an ignorant people, their misfortunes can only vary, but will always follow one another.[38] |
| Of two neighboring nations, the one with more common sense will always sooner or later prevail over the one with only common sense.[39] |
Anatole Broyard
| When hope is taken away from a people, moral decay sets in very quickly.[40] |
Abraham Lincoln
16th President of the United States and first from the Republican Party (1809–1865).
| You can fool some of the people all the time; You can fool all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.[41] |
Max Nordau
Physician, writer, politician and co-founder (1849–1932).
| You can not be connected with the people by a single drop of blood and at the same time adopt their character with all the advantages and disadvantages, if only you are brought up and live in their environment.[42] |
Heinrich Heine
German poet, publicist and critic of late romanticism (1797-1856).
| We fight not for the human rights of a people, but for the divine rights of man.[43] |
Ralph Emerson
American essayist (1803-1882).
| The truest measure of civilization is not the size of the population, not the size of cities, not the harvest, no, but the quality of the people a country produces. |
Georg Brandes
Danish literary critic (1842-1927).
| The greatest danger to freedom is the passivity of the people.[44] |
Charles Duclos
French historian, royal historiographer (1704-1772).
| The people applaud every revolution in government until they are disappointed once again.[45] |
Antoine de Rivarol
French writer (1753-1801).
| The people do not need abstract ideas, but truisms.[46] |
Plato
Ancient Greek philosopher, student of Socrates (427-347 BC).
| Nations will be happy when real philosophers are kings or when kings are real philosophers.[47] |
Claude Helvetius
French writer and utilitarian materialist philosopher (1715-1771).
| Sciences and arts are the glory of the people; they increase his happiness.[48] |
Friedrich Engels
Philosopher (1820-1885).
| A people who oppresses other peoples cannot be free. The power he needs to suppress another people always turns against himself in the end.[49] |
John Ruskin
English writer (1819-1900).
| It is not the seas that divide peoples, but ignorance, not the difference of language, but hostile relations.[50] |
Oscar Wilde
English writer and poet (1845-1900).
| Discontent is the first step towards progress, both for the individual and for the people.[51] |
Booker Taliaferro Washington
Writer, fighter for the education of African Americans (1856-1915).
| No people can prosper until they realize that plowing a field is as worthy an occupation as writing a poem.[52] |
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French politician; the first person to call himself an anarchist (1809–1865).
| A people who thinks that they can defend their freedom only by systematically expelling their most gifted citizens who have served them best, thereby proves that they are unworthy of freedom.[53] |
Karel Capek
Czech writer (1890-1938).
| The will of the people is usually spoken of by those who command it.[54] |
Mikael Nalbandyan
Armenian writer (1829-1866).
| The backbone of the nation and its lever are the common people. No matter how rich a nation is in wonderful people, nevertheless, its driving force will remain the common people - they are the camp, the axis and the lever of this machine.[55] |
Xunzi
Chinese thinker of the Confucian tradition (238-313 BC).
| The ruler can be compared to a boat, and the people to water: water can carry a boat, or it can capsize it.[56] |
Henry Brougham
English politician and publicist (1778-1868).
| An enlightened people is easier to lead, but more difficult to persecute; easier to control, but impossible to enslave.[57] |
Charles Montesquieu
Writer (1689-1755).
| Corruption is of two kinds: either when a people does not keep the laws, or when they are corrupted by the laws; and this last evil is incurable, since it lies in the healing agent itself.”[58] |
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ancient Roman politician, orator and philosopher (106-43 BC).
| Only that society in which the people enjoy supreme power is the true repository of freedom, that freedom that is above all goods and which, not being equal for everyone, is no longer freedom.[59] |
Stanislav Jerzy Lec
Polish poet, philosopher, satirist and author of aphorisms (1909-1966).
| A people may have one soul, one heart, one chest, with which it rises against its enemies, but woe to it if it has one brain.[60] |
Female friendship
It is impossible to fully cover the topic of aphorisms about friendship without paying attention to quotes about the friendship of girlfriends. After all, for us women, no important event will be fully experienced until it has been thoroughly discussed with a friend, right?
“The loneliest woman in the world is the woman who has no close friend.”
“I’m not strong, she’s not strong, but together with my friend we are stronger than anyone in the world.”
Linda McFarlane
“How can you tell if your life is a success? If you are dying, and five true, faithful friends have gathered around you, it means that your life was not lived in vain.”
Lee Iacocca
“A friend is a friend. You will call her at night and tell her that you have fallen in love. And she will simply say in a hoarse voice: “Sleep!” - and hangs up. After which he will call back and say: “Open the door for me. Just be quiet.”
“The best friend is a person to whom you don’t even need to tell anything; she sees in her eyes what is happening.”
“Men come and go, but girlfriends stay.”
Milla Jovovich
“Sometimes having coffee with your best friend is the best therapy.”
“She sometimes imagined a world without men, but she could not imagine a world without these two friends of hers. They were “always” in her life. And although, or maybe because all three of them were completely different, it seemed to her that without them the world would have lost one dimension. I would become flat."
Janusz Wisniewski
“For most women, experiencing love means talking it over with your best friend.”
Leszek Kumor
Statements about the nation
Honore de Balzac
French writer (1799-1850).
| The future of the nation is in the hands of mothers.[61] |
Charles Fox
English politician (1749-1806).
| For a nation that values its honor - or even its interests, inseparable from honor - it is very important to secure from neighboring nations a good opinion in everything that concerns justice, generosity, moderation.”[62] |
Bernard Show
Outstanding Irish playwright (1856-1950).
| A healthy nation is as oblivious to its nationality as a healthy person is to its spine. But if you undermine its national dignity, the nation will think of nothing else but to restore it. She will not listen to any reformers, any philosophers, or preachers, until the demands of the nationalists are satisfied. She will not engage in any business, no matter how urgent, except the cause of reunification and liberation.[63] |
Joseph Ernest Renan
French philosopher and writer (1832-1892).
| The nation is the soul, the spiritual principle... Like the individual, the nation is the goal of many efforts and sacrifices.[64] |
John Ruskin
English writer (1819-1900).
| A low nation crucifies or poisons its wise men and leaves its madmen to roam free and perish in the streets. A wise nation obeys the first, restrains the second, and loves all.[65] |
We see our reflection in friends
Quotes about friendship with meaning make us think once again that friends are not only the greatest value, but also our reflection, because a person can be judged by his close circle.
“Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are.”
“He who is a good friend himself has good friends.”
Nicolo Machiavelli
“The Lord has given us relatives, but we, thank God, are free to choose our own friends.”
Ethel Mumford
“Friendship is like a treasury: you cannot get out of it more than you put into it.”
Osip Mandelstam
“Live with people so that your friends do not become enemies, and your enemies become friends.”
“Close friendship occurs among people who are similar to each other.”
“Whoever wants to have a friend without faults remains without friends.”
Biant Priensky
“He who is looking for an ideal friend will be left without friends.”
Helena Blavatsky
see also
- Quotes about Russia
- Quotes about the state
- Quotes about fatherland and homeland
- Quotes about society
- Quotes about politics
- Quotes about war and peace
- Russian proverbs and sayings
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Friendship between a man and a woman
Another interesting section is quotes about friendship between a man and a woman. In the debate about the existence of this type of friendship, a great many spears have been broken, but this has not led to a consensus. But maybe there shouldn’t be a clear answer here?
“What difference does it make whether there is female friendship, male friendship or friendship between a man and a woman? It happens that without a person it’s impossible. And it doesn’t matter what gender or height you are. Closeness of souls is what happens. The rest doesn't matter."
