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.

Ivan Krastev

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• Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

  

  Oleg Deripaska
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Russia

• 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.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Example
  • Privilege
  • Russia

• I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • People
  • Want
  • Russia

• I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • More
  • Social
  • Russia

• The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • Reality
  • Ideology

• 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.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Human
  • Friendship
  • Russia

• 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.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Life
  • May
  • Society

• I was beginning to hope someone would attack me.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Hope
  • Beginning
  • Attack

• My father was convinced, I think rightly, that if he stayed in Russia, he would have trouble with Lenin.

  

  Leonid Hurwicz
  • Father
  • Trouble
  • Russia

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Russia
  • Memorable

• 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.

  

  Bob Denver
  • Silly
  • Attack
  • Reviewer

• 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.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Up
  • Political
  • Single

• 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.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Up
  • Red
  • Attack

• Any attack with hostile intent against NATO verification aircraft will have the greatest consequence.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Consequence
  • Attack
  • NATO

• The biggest nationalist in Russia: that's me.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Russia

• There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Common
  • Citizens
  • Russia

• I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.

  

  will.i.am
  • Made
  • India
  • Russia

• We may attack systems. We must not attack men.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Men
  • Attack
  • Systems

• You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Work
  • Home
  • Child

• I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Truth

• They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Neighbors
  • Visiting
  • Roosters

• Given the huge size of Aegirocassis and its very alien appearance, I assume most people would probably be terrified if they'd encounter it while swimming. However, contrary to almost all other anomalocaridids which were active predators, our animal would have been a very peaceful guy.

  

  Benjamin Van Roy
  • People
  • Encounter
  • Predators

• My whole motto is get four yards, and if I get more than four, that's fine.

  

  Corey Dillon
  • Get
  • Motto
  • Yards

• 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.

  

  Ivan Krastev
  • Russia
  • Attack
  • Ideology