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Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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ALLEN TATE To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
ERNST FISCHER To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
ERNST FISCHER In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a ...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim ...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most c...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Envy is an insult to oneself.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not ...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but world...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO He who is conceived in a cage, yearns for the cage.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals f...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Justice is like a train that is nearly always late
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Some...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Translation is like a woman, ... If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is mo...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO My first book was bad. It concentrated more on form than content,
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Be equal to your talent, not your age./ At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO But what if it doesn't work ... ?/ and they jammed sticks/ In the wheels of the first locomotive/ To...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not ...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO No, Stalin did not die. He thinks that death can be fixed. We removed him from the mausoleum. But ho...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinne...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO We stopped the war in Afghanistan. We abolished censorship. We abolished the special commissions tha...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Мне говорят, качая головой:
"Ты подобрел бы. Ты какой-...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO They tell me, shaking their heads:
"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".

...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serv...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if...
TAIYE SELASI Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.
RONALD STEEL In Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone he goes so far as to claim that conscientious moral ju...
JENS TIMMERMANN I go back to when the Constitution was written by our founding fathers. We profess as a nation to be...
GARRY THOMAS Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real...
KIM DOTCOM Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back sea...
JAMES MCGREEVEY As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral...
LAFCADIO HEARN Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least s...
NINA EASTON History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
TOMICHAN MATHEIKAL I am sick and tired of hearing that it is our moral duty to serve the state, because conservatives b...
ALLEN WEST Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fea...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Pests destroy our food supply and threaten public health by spreading deadly diseases. We must use p...
JAY VROOM I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not ...
HENRY ADAMS People who think literature should be Serious—should serve as a blueprint for a rocket that will n...
GARY SHTEYNGART Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and t...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledg...
DAVID AMRAM Somebody with questionable moral judgment isn't someone you want to have control of your networks.
AVI RUBIN Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.
BILLY GRAHAM Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy...
ISAAC ASIMOV Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy,...
ISAAC ASIMOV Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important li...
JULIO CORTáZAR Everyone in life has a purpose, even if it's to serve as a bad example
CARROLL BRYANT In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, b...
J. M. COETZEE His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politic...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral prete...
WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre m...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU As a chess player one has to be able to control one’s feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine...
LEVON ARONIAN Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universa...
DANIEL TAMMET Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of ha...
HENRY ADAMS Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of ha...
HENRY ADAMS Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of ha...
HENRY ADAMS Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hat...
BROOKS ADAMS What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
THOMAS MANN Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or no...
LEONE LEVI Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral ...
GEORGE MCGOVERN I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the mor...
KARAN JOHAR The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
TED SHACKELFORD When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes litera...
RAYMOND CHANDLER There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond cove...
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literat...
JAMES CONNOLLY As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Na...
EDWARD KENNEDY American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western ...
CHRISTOPHER DAWSON Politics and locusts always mix. In the mix there is never any logic though. Politics makes locust c...
DAVID HUNTER For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and aut...
ATA AIDOO For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and aut...
AMA ATA AIDOO For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and aut...
AMA ATA AIDOO Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been p...
EDI RAMA In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN Only a damn fool believes that American Christians have been kissing Israeli butts for 60 years and ...
BOBBY W. MILLER If nothing is done to counter present trends, the major fault line in American politics will no long...
ROBERT B. REICH Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote mys...
VACLAV HAVEL As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has...
BARACK OBAMA Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest materia...
PAUL KALANITHI A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON To control anger in teenage childrens, mother should always prepare food and serve with smiles.
ARVIND MEHTA Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.
REINALDO ARENAS Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

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YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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"Ты подобрел бы. Ты какой-...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO They tell me, shaking their heads:
"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".

...
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