Writers are much more esteemed in Russia, they playa much larger part in society thantheydo in theWest.The advantage of not being free is that people listen to you.

-Snow, C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron
Interview on Radio Moscow.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

-Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich
  In the Listener,15 Feb.

Go West, young man, go West!

-Soule,John Babsone Lane
Terre Haute Express.

Gigantic daughter of the West, We drink to thee across the flood, We know thee most, we love thee best, For art thou not of British blood?

-Tennyson
  'Hands all Round', stanza 4, l.37^40.

   I am convinced that the history of so-called scientific work in our famous centers of European civilization will, in a couple of hundred years, represent an inexhaustible source of laughter and sorrow for future generations. The learned men of the small western part of our European continent lived for several centuries under the illusionthatthe eternal blessed life wastheWest'sfuture. They were interested in the problem of when and where this blessed life would come.But they never thought of how they were going to make their life better.

-Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich
  What is Art? (translated byV Tchertkoff).

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, orat least thething that had been called by that name for the last four centuries.What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

-Weil, Simone
On Science, Necessity and the Love of God,'Classical Science and After' (translated by Richard Rees,1968).

Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty.

-Wordsworth,William
  OfVenice.'On the Extinction of theVenetian Republic', l.1^4 (published1807).

The West has not lived through totalitarianism, with a single ideology for 70 years.We are escaping from the burden of the past, and onlyafter we have done that will we be ready to integrate with Europeöand Europe needs Russia.

-Yeltsin, Boris
  Addressing socialist MPs in Strasbourg,15 Apr.