Ivan Krastev Quotes
Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.
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Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
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The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
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If [Western] relations with Russia are to be friendly, they must be open and sincere, otherwise there can be no friendship at all. That means one should be able to speak openly about everything at meetings and conferences. It shouldn't be that we can't discuss the killing of journalists in Russia, or the suppression of human rights, or all the warning signs surfacing in Russia because of oil and gas or other economic reasons. It's a big problem, but it's the same in Western relations with Arab states.
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Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.
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I was beginning to hope someone would attack me.
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My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.
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We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.
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Which was lucky, because they were atrocious. But, if I were a reviewer and saw the show, I'd probably attack it, too, and call it silly and inane -- which it was meant to be.
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I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
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I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack.
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Any attack with hostile intent against NATO verification aircraft will have the greatest consequence.
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The biggest nationalist in Russia: that's me.
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There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.
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I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.
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We may attack systems. We must not attack men.
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The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
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I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the George W. Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.
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Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.
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Once there was a man who was afraid of his shadow. Then he met it. Now he glows in the dark.
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Liberty is always unfinished business...
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Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.
