Vladimir Solovyov Quotes on Politics
Vladimir Solovyov (1853–1900), the founding figure of the late-nineteenth-century Russian religious philosophical revival, gave Russian political philosophy its most ambitious Christian-universalist programme in The Justification of the Good (1897) and the long sequence of essays on the Jewish question, on church reunion, and on the relation between the spiritual and temporal powers. The framework treats political authority as legitimate only as the instrument of the gradual realization of the kingdom of God in history — the "free theocracy" in which church, state, and prophetic society cooperate without coercion — and defends an explicitly ecumenical programme of reconciliation between Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism against the nationalist confessional politics then dominant in the Russian Empire and beyond.
Quotes
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Attributed to Vladimir Solovyov:
“The task of history is the gradual realization of the kingdom of God on earth.”
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“Let me put it this way: There will never be any war between Russia and Ukraine because any person who attempts in full seriousness to undertake such an act is a criminal. What's more, I can't even imagine how big a criminal.”
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“In Ukraine, there live people who are absolutely fraternal in spirit, blood and common history, a war with whom would be the worst crime you could think of.”
Said on Russian TV (2008), quoted in "Putin State TV Ally Once Said Anyone Invading Ukraine Would Be a Criminal" , Newsweek (12 October 2022) -
“Said on Russian TV (2008), quoted in "Putin State TV Ally Once Said Anyone Invading Ukraine Would Be a Criminal" , Newsweek (12 October 2022)”
In Ukraine, there live people who are absolutely fraternal in spirit, blood and common history, a war with whom would be the worst crime you could think of. -
“Putin’s Dogs of Propaganda War: Who are His Main Propagandists (1)" , Kyiv Post (21 April 2022)”
Russians were not the first to attack Ukraine. Russians are not fighting the Ukrainians but the ‘Banderovitsi’ (Ukrainian nationalists) and Nazis , whom they are hostages of. The Nazis have taken control of Ukraine. -
“Not only Ukraine will have to be denazified . The war against Europe and the world is developing a more specific outline, which means we'll have to act differently and to act much more harshly.”
Prominent Russian TV presenter says war 'against Europe and the world' is on the way following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine" , Yahoo! News (22 April 2022). -
“Prominent Russian TV presenter says war 'against Europe and the world' is on the way following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine" , Yahoo! News (22 April 2022).”
Not only Ukraine will have to be denazified . The war against Europe and the world is developing a more specific outline, which means we'll have to act differently and to act much more harshly.