Author of quotes: Ivan Ilyin

Thus, the Church cannot and should not arm the army, organize the police, intelligence and diplomacy, draw up the state budget, direct academic research, manage concerts and theaters, etc.; but the religious spirit radiated by it can and should ennoble and purify all this secular activity of people.

Living and creating in their own language, the Russian people, as befits a great cultured people, generously shared their gifts with their humble neighbors, felt into their lives, listened to their originality, learned from them, sang them in their poetry, adopted their art, their songs, their dances and their clothes, and simply and sincerely considered them to be his brothers.

Secondly, the citizen is called upon to voluntarily recognize and observe the laws of his homeland, because this is the only way to maintain law and order and at the same time remain free in it.

In the fight against it, all alliances and all means will be used. Russia will shift its center to the Urals, gather all its enormous forces, develop its technology, find powerful allies for itself and fight until it finally and forever undermines the power of the dismembering power. National Russia is not looking for anyone's death, but it will be able to respond in a timely manner to any attempt at dismemberment and will fight to the end. It is more profitable for any power to have Russia as a friend, not an enemy. History has not yet said its last word.

In the fight against it, all alliances and all means will be used. Russia will shift its center to the Urals, gather all its enormous forces, develop its technology, find powerful allies for itself and fight until it finally and forever undermines the power of the dismembering power. National Russia is not looking for anyone's death, but it will be able to respond in a timely manner to any attempt at dismemberment and will fight to the end. It is more profitable for any power to have Russia as a friend, not an enemy. History has not yet said its last word.

Europe does not know Russia, does not understand its people, its history, its socio-political system and its faith. She never understood her Sovereigns, the immensity of their task, their politics, the nobility of their intentions and the human limit of their capabilities.

Europe does not need the truth about Russia; she needs a untruth that is convenient for her. Its press is ready to print the latest nonsense about us, if this nonsense has the character of blasphemy and reproach.

Real discipline is an expression of inner freedom, that is, spiritual self-control and self-government.

People who do not know their inhibitions easily forget any restraint and discipline or find themselves doomed to legal insanity.

People who do not know their powers arbitrarily exceed them or cowardly succumb to power.

The best should rule in all states and under all regimes. Every regime is bad if it is ruled by the worst.

The sooner and the deeper the child's imagination will be captivated by vivid images of national Holiness and national prowess, the better for him.

Democratic elections are only conditionally suitable means for unconditionally true goal (selecting the best). If such a goal and such a facility across, the conditional means must give unconditional goal. The requirement that ruled the best, refers to the nature, to the idea of the state; a system under which the government will remain the worst will be vitally doomed and will collapse sooner or later, with more or less shame.

Meanwhile, in fact, the people creating the policy, are called to seek unity, a state of salvation, a kind of unified program, which required the state; they are designed to look for common, the fact that all at once, or will, or will not be - of law, order, a strong army, the court incorruptible, honest administration, raising school, strong finances, economic and cultural prosperity of the people. <...> This unity is the basis of the state: the unity of citizens among themselves and the unity of citizens with the government. It is therefore not right all the theories and doctrines which are trying to convince us that the policy is eternal and inescapable struggle of citizens with the government: for de power means "push" and "oppression," but citizenship means that "freedom" and "independence". All these theories of the origin of the revolutionary and anarchic nature. On the contrary, the government rests and holds voluntary recognition of the power of the citizens, on the one hand, and the respect and confidence of state authorities to the citizens, on the other hand. The enmity does not build a state. Of the eternal and hateful of the opposition citizens can grow only revolution, the decay and death of the people.