"None of the politicians want to change this country, and will not change [it]. It's just that the Dnepropetrovsk "businessmen" shook the Donetsk "urkas" (bandits). That's the whole revolution." — Gennadiy Minaev on the Revolution of Dignity

"it seems that Russia is intended only to show the whole world how not to live and what not to do." — Pyotr Chaadaev

“The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.” — Sir William Francis Butler

"So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." — Thucydides

"The entire history of relations between Moscow and Ukraine for more than 250 years, since the unification of these two states, has been a systematic, reckless, shameless, brazen destruction of the Ukrainian nation by all means, to the point of erasing every trace of it, so that even its name does not remain." — Volodymyr Vynnychenko

“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.” — Bertolt Brecht