Ukraine
Quotes & Thinkers from Ukraine
13 thinkers102 quotesTop field: Politics
"more than a colleague, more than a friend. I feel him like a brother. A man who loved every culture, you know, an open minded man."
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🇺🇦Nestor Makhno
Military
1888–1934
"Anarchism — a life of freedom and creative independence for humanity."
7 quotes
🇺🇦Vasyl Slipak
Music
1974–2016
"more than a colleague, more than a friend. I feel him like a brother. A man who loved every culture, you know, an open minded man."
45 quotes
🇺🇦Sofia Rotaru
Music
b. 1947
4 quotes
🇺🇦Petro Poroshenko
Politics
b. 1965
"We must be united on the outside front. Even during a parliamentary campaign, even when we have very tough political confrontations within the country."
8 quotes
🇺🇦Anatoly Shariy
Politics
b. 1978
"Gypsies are the filth of the world. Europe is gradually waking up, and under the outraged cries of tolerasts, it begins to clean the dirt. When will we wake up?"
6 quotes
🇺🇦Oksana Shachko
Art
1987–2018
"They can kill you in one second, you understand that you are a very very small person. But in the same time one thinks: you are a small person that can make such a big point that even Russia will send their after you!"
10 quotes
🇺🇦Volodymyr Zelensky
Politics
"In today's world, where we live, there is no longer someone else’s war. None of you can feel safe when there is a war in Ukraine, when there is a war in Europe."
5 quotes
🇺🇦Maria Nikiforova
Social Activism
1885–1919
"Maria Nikiforova at the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia"
6 quotes
🇺🇦Andriy Shevchenko
Politics
b. 1976
"If my goals and victories can help the world remember Chernobyl and bring a smile to the face of the people still suffering then I dedicate all my success to them."
5 quotes
🇺🇦Lawrence Huculak
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🇺🇦Zusha of Hanipol
Religion
1719–1800
"In the coming world they will not ask me—Why were you not Moses? They will ask me—Why were you not Zusya?"
1 quotes
🇺🇦Viktor Yushchenko
Politics
b. 1954
"Ukraine is facing a serious threat of isolation as some local political forces want to put an end to democracy and democratic reforms in the country"
1 quotes
🇺🇦Volodymyr Melnykov
Mathematics
b. 1951
"About the author Volodymyr Melnykov in the electronic library Rulit"
3 quotes
Notable Quotes
"Ukraine this year celebrated 25 years of independence, but it was real independence only after the Maidan, when a real state started to form. Here we have an example of a person who left his career to fight. New heroes of the new Ukraine are being born."
— Vasyl Slipak, b. 1974View →
"I told about Vasyl to French composer Pierre Thilloy, my good acquaintance, and offered him to write a small piece. He creates music which is easy to listen to, and he agreed immediately and said he would like to visit the premiere."
— Vasyl Slipak, b. 1974View →
"It was great to come so close to Putin and say 'fuck you' straight to his face, almost two years before other Ukrainians understood what he was doing to the country."
— Oksana Shachko, b. 1987View →
"They can kill you in one second, you understand that you are a very very small person. But in the same time one thinks: you are a small person that can make such a big point that even Russia will send their after you!"
— Oksana Shachko, b. 1987View →
"Vasyl Slipak showed by his example an incredible will of Ukrainians to defend their native land. As a volunteer fighter, he demonstrated an example of patriotism and self-sacrifice to many, particularly our young people."
— Vasyl Slipak, b. 1974View →