Quotations by Noam Chomsky

NOAM CHOMSKY (B. 1928) IS AN EMINENT AMERICAN LINGUIST, PHILOSOPHER, AND POLITICAL WRITER. “The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the...

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Quotations by Alexander Pushkin

ALEXANDER PUSHKIN, A RUSSIAN POET, NOVELIST, AND PLAYWRIGHT, WHO IS WIDELY REGARDED BY MANY AS THE GREATEST POET OF ALL TIME. “What grace could all your worldly power bring To One whose crown of thorns has made him King, The Christ who gave His body to the flails, Who humbly bore the lance and...

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Quotations by Anton Chekhov

ANTON CHEKHOV (1860 –1904) WAS A PROMINENT RUSSIAN PLAYWRIGHT AND SHORT-STORY WRITER. If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It’s better to live somehow than not at all. ~Anton Chekhov, The Bet (1889)  “By poeticizing love,...

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Quotations by Leo Tolstoy

LEO TOLSTOY (1828-1910), RUSSIAN NOVELIST AND MORAL PHILOSOPHER, STANDS AMONGST BEST WRITERS OF ALL TIME.  “Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.” ~ Leo Tolstoy, My Religion (1884), Ch. 12 “The hero of my tale, whom I love with...

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