Russian Empire Order

Famous quotes containing the words russian, empire and/or order:

    “To be born in a new country one has to die in the motherland.”
    —Irina Mogilevskaya, Russian student. “Immigrating to the U.S.,” student paper in an English as a Second Language class, Hunter College, 1995.

    “There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.”
    —Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

    “Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)