Quotes and Sayings about Moscow

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

The soul is healed by being with children.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them - the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

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.

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.

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

Lacking of any kind of regular work is unbearable for any human.

Only love creates things that are alive and last, pride is fruitless, because it knows only itself.

The beginning of wisdom's always showing respect for wisdom.

How can I forget your love?

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

The only way you are going to have success is to have lots of failures first.

I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations.

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

Russia probably knows the true cost of revolutions better than most other countries.

If you think that a coup to overthrow the elected government is a coup everywhere, then you should remember how elections in Ukraine took place in 2004, how elections in Georgia took place in 2003, when the elections results have been torn and thrown away by revolutionary action.

Shouldn't the General Assembly adopt a declaration on the inadmissibility of interference into domestic affairs of sovereign states and nonrecognition of coup d'etats as a method of the change of power?

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.

The truth is always there, whether we see it or not - whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants. It doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions.

To be a scientist is to be naive.

When the truth offends me, we lie and we lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.

You have to do the opposite of what people expect. How else will you surprise them?

Yuuri's life and love have taught me about a brand new world that I'd never known before.

How can someone who can't motivate others motivate himself?

Forgive me if this sounds pompous, but it's better to die standing up than live on your knees.

Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were afraid, I couldn't do what I do.

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.

This is no military coup. This is a justice march. Our actions in no way interfere with the troops.

I have never been a chef. I can't cook myself. They should have just come up with "Putin's butcher" instead.

The special military operation was done for the purpose of "denazification," while we've made Ukraine into a nation that's known throughout the world. They're like the Greeks or the Romans at their peaks. And as far as "demilitarization," if they had some 500 tanks at the start of the special military operation, now they have 5,000. If they had 20,000 capable fighters before, now they have 400,000. What kind of demilitarization is that? Now it looks more like we did the opposite, somehow or other, and militarized Ukraine.

Stop the war! Admit that this is a war against an entire nation and stop it!

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