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
  • Memorable
  • Russia

• 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

• The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Problem
  • Evidence
  • Answer

• It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • May
  • Unique

• The only thing I didn't like as a kid was I was required to do a minimum of 3 hours of schoolwork every day, and there was a tutor on set.

  

  Jonathan Ke Quan
  • Kid
  • Set
  • Tutor

• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• We are here on this earth to know God intimately, fully, correctly, and contagiously; to house His holy person in our very bodies, allowing Him to showcase to the world around us His loving nature, His attitude, His thoughts, His emotions, and His actions through the way we live every moment of our lives.

  

  Eric Ludy
  • God
  • Nature
  • House

• 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