Russia

Capital:             Moscow
Government:     Federation, semi-presidential republic
Currency:         Ruble (RUB)
Area:                17,075,400km2
Population:       142,008,838 (2008 est.)
Language:         Russian (official), 26 regionally-official

Russia Quotes

Water does not run under a lying stone. 

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
-Ayn Rand

Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.
-Konstantin Stanislavsky

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
-Ayn Rand

Old age is not a joy, but death is not a gain. 

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
-Alexander Solzehnitsyn

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I’.
-Ayn Rand

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality.
-Ayn Rand

Don't put new wine into old bottles. 

I have a trend of my own.
-Andrei Platonov

A mile walk with a friend has only one hundred steps. 

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
-Anton Chekhov

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
-Ayn Rand

Take time to smell the roses. 

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
-Alexander Solzehnitsyn

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
-Ayn Rand

If you want to be happy, be.
-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.
-Ayn Rand

Tell God the truth, but give the judge money. 

He need not search his pockets for words. 

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
-Leo Tolstoy

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
- Alexander Herzen

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
-Ayn Rand

Every seed knows its time. 

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
-Ayn Rand

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
-Leo Tolstoy

Explosions are not comfortable.
-Yevgeny Zamyatin

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
-Leo Tolstoy

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
-Alexander Alekhine

Countless as the sands of the sea are human passions.
-Nikolai Gogol

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
-Leo Tolstoy

Every road has two directions. 

If the child does not cry, the mother knows not its wants. 

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
-Maxim Gorky

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
-Ivan Turgenev

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
-Leo Tolstoy

The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
-Maxim Gorky

My body gets weak without truth.
-Andrei Platonov

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.
-Ivan Turgenev

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
-Alexander Herzen

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
-Maxim Gorky

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
-Leo Tolstoy

A court is like a scene, people want to see attractive people.
-Anna Kournikova

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it a new.
-Ivan Turgenev

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
-Leo Tolstoy

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
-Ivan Turgenev

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
-Leo Tolstoy