The best Quotes by Boris Yeltsin

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Freedom Satisfaction Breathing Air

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical. At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

Character Innovation

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

War Weapons Violence

Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

Communism

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Life Risk

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Every country has its own mafia. In Russia, the mafia has its own country.

Garry Kasparov

Russia

I want to say thank you to each of you because we are together. And when we feel the reliable support of those standing beside us, Russia becomes one big family.

Vladimir Putin - New Year Eve’s address 2020/21

Russia

This country, Russia, has changed. Russia has become a real football country... where football has become part of the country's DNA and the culture.

Gianni Infantino

Russia Soccer World Championship 2018

Russia... the prequel and sequel to the Sowjet Union.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Russia

Russia... the country that gave the world Tetris, merkins you wear on your heads, and potentially the 45th President of the United States.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Donald Trump Russia US Elections Tetris

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

Vladimir Putin

Russia

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

Harry Houdini

Russia Paris

Could it be that Russians simply don't need freedom? That while other people do, Russians don't?

Dmitry Glukhovsky

Russia

Russia is on the brink of catastrophe.

Yevgeny Prigozhin - April 2023

Russia

In Russia an authoritarian leader is running the country. You can't fight Putin with elections because he controls them. That's why demonstrations are the most effective approach. Unfortunately Russia has sunk to this primitive level.

Alexei Navalny

Vladimir Putin Russia

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

Alexei Navalny

Russia

As long as weapons of mass destruction exist, primarily nuclear weapons, the danger is colossal. All nations should declare... that nuclear weapons must be destroyed. This is to save ourselves and our planet.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Weapons Nuclear Weapons

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Yesterday Today

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Socialism

Dangers await only those who do not react to life.

Mikhail Gorbachev - October 1989

Danger

Our power comes from the perception of our power.

Mikhail Gorbachev in Chernobyl - Episode 2

Power

If Putin goes ahead with his plan for a change of regime in Kyiv, then democracies around the world must now start thinking about a change of regime in Moscow.

Wladimir Klitschko - February 2022

Russia-Ukraine War Kiev Moscow

There lived a certain man in Russia long ago
He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear

Boney M. - Rasputin

TikTok Moscow

The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

Andy Warhol

Stockholm McDonald's Moscow Florence

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Freedom

Sometimes in life when you get what you want, you end up missing what you left behind.

J.D. in Scrubs

Remorse Satisfaction

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

Johnny Depp

Love Laughing & Smile Breathing

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy - June 1963

Justice Air

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Character Decisions

Innovation is about seeing things from a different perspective.

Amaury Guichon in School of Chocolate - Season 1 Episode 1

Innovation

Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.

Master Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

War Warriors

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Albert Einstein

Humanity Weapons Nuclear Weapons

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent... leave that to me.

Eminem

Sex Violence Drugs

If there's not enough coffee for everyone, there's coffee for no one.

Che Guevara

Communism Coffee

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

Dory in Finding Nemo

Life Risk Safety

Jewish communities are warning their members to avoid specific places for their own safety - today, here in Germany, almost 80 years after the Holocaust.

Robert Habeck - November 2023

Judaism Holocaust 2023

If Putin were to win this war, what sign would that be for other dictators in the world like Xi, like the Chinese President? So therefore Ukraine has to win this war.

Annalena Baerbock - September 2023

Xi Jinping Russia-Ukraine War

This is the dirty work that Israel is doing – for all of us. Otherwise, we might have continued to endure the terror of this regime for months or years – and possibly even with nuclear weapons.

Friedrich Merz - Juni 2025

Iran Israel 2025

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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