Martin Amis Quotes

I am interested in the subject which is Russia.

Russia right now is searching for its soul. It is trying to figure out what it is.

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

We are not now a country of Africa but a country of Europe.

English-speaking Canada, far from stifling Quebec, has acted...as a committed partner, a buffer, shielding its culture from the rest of an English-speaking continent that Quebecers perceive as a threatening force.

The Indian independence leaders, Nehru, Gandhi and others, were products of the West.

Nationhood is not founded on religion but blood ties, a common culture and homeland.

The culture and values of many former Soviet republics really do differ from what prevails in the West.

Not too many people out there are interested in Russia so much that they really want to watch things about Russia and only about Russia.

I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests.

The trouble with Russia is not that she is socialist but that she is Russia.

The United States supports a strong, united Ukraine with productive and peaceful relationships with both the East and the West, with both Russia and Europe.

The West has the wrong perception about Turkey itself.

Germany has traditionally played a very constructive role regarding E.U. ties with Russia and the West as a whole with Russia.

Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

The West will never understand Muslims so long as we ... judge them by the rules we are accustomed to apply to ourselves.

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war. I feel that an understanding could be reached (with Germany) which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

This is nothing less than a national tragedy…. It is time to consider these refugees arriving from Poland and elsewhere purely on their merits as migrants and in an unsentimental light. In the last 50 years these people have swarmed all over Europe, coming principally from Armenia, Russia and the Balkans. We should remember that they are European neither by race, standards, nor culture. They are, in fact, an Eastern people. In 2000 years no one but Britain has been successfully able to absorb them, and for the most part they owe loyalty and allegiance to none.

Deep down, the ordinary Frenchman doesn't believe that Turks, or Eastern Europeans for that matter, cherish the values he holds most dear. Nor do the French much trust that the Germans and the British have French interests at heart. Given European history -- and given what I see around me -- I can't say I blame them.

Nationality is a thing like a church or a secret society; it is a product of the human soul and will; it is a spiritual product.

We are going to liberate Europe, but that’s because the Americans are with us to do it. For, understand this, every time we must choose between Europe and the open sea, we will always choose the open sea. Every time that I have to choose between you and Roosevelt, I will always choose Roosevelt.

All these nations and peoples of Europe and Asia will insist upon their independence and their own cultures.

We in the West tend to think of a nation subdivided into different religions. Islam sees itself as a religion subdivided into different nations.

Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all — in one way or another — obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster…

Britishness has got to be the foundation of the multicultural society in this country. Anything less than this is farcical and treacherous.