„I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less … than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.“

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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„In no country in the world are the majority of the population oppressed so much as in Russia; Great Russians constitute only 43 per cent of the population, i. e., less than half; the non-Russians are denied all rights.“
— Vladimir Lenin
„It's easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.“
— Lemmy Kilmister
„The future smells of Russian leather, of blood, of godlessness and of much whipping. I advise our grandchildren to come into the world with very thick skin on their backs.“
— Heinrich Heine
„I have after years of thinking on the subject come to the conviction that work is the only instrument of effective education. It may sometimes be manual work and sometimes non-manual work. Although it is work alone that can educate, I have also come to the conviction by long observation and experience that all work does not educate.“
— Zakir Hussain (politician)