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Top 30 David Remnick Quotes (2025 Update)

David Remnick Quote: “The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.”

1. “The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.”

2. “Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.”

3. “Nature is cold, wet, hard and unforgiving.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.”

4. “I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.”

5. “The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “I’m not sure it is possible to describe just how hard it is to acquire a reputation as a drunk in Russia.”

6. “I’m not sure it is possible to describe just how hard it is to acquire a reputation as a drunk in Russia.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “Just before his exile, Solzhenitsyn wrote his “Letter to the Soviet Leaders.” “Your dearest wish,” he informed them, “is for our state structure and our ideological system never to change, to remain as they are for centuries. But history is not like that. Every system either finds a way to develop or else it collapses.” And with that, Solzhenitsyn was gone.”

7. “Just before his exile, Solzhenitsyn wrote his “Letter to the Soviet Leaders.” “Your dearest wish,” he informed them, “is for our state structure and our ideological system never to change, to remain as they are for centuries. But history is not like that. Every system either finds a way to develop or else it collapses.” And with that, Solzhenitsyn was gone.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “In the introduction, Amy Butler the senior minister at Riverside and a friend of Clinton’s, referred to the Trump Administration as a source of anguish and confusion, and everyone nodded solemly’.”

8. “In the introduction, Amy Butler the senior minister at Riverside and a friend of Clinton’s, referred to the Trump Administration as a source of anguish and confusion, and everyone nodded solemly’.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “But the symbolism of the miners’ strike was extraordinary. The miners embodied the vanguard of the proletariat, a bastion of Bolshevism in the old days. To look out at the great crown of them in Lenin Square was to see a kind of poster for what had once been called “the masses.” And now the masses were walking off the job and declaring that socialism had not delivered anything – not even a bar of soap.”

9. “But the symbolism of the miners’ strike was extraordinary. The miners embodied the vanguard of the proletariat, a bastion of Bolshevism in the old days. To look out at the great crown of them in Lenin Square was to see a kind of poster for what had once been called “the masses.” And now the masses were walking off the job and declaring that socialism had not delivered anything – not even a bar of soap.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.”

10. “Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “For decades, the massacres at Kalinin, Starobelsk, and Katyn had been a symbol for the Poles of Moscow’s cruelty and imperial grip. For a Pole merely to hint that the Soviet Union was responsible for the massacres was a radical, even suicidal act, for it made clear the speaker’s point of view: the “friendship of peoples,” the relationship between Moscow and Warsaw, was one based on violence, an occupier’s reign over its satellite.”

11. “For decades, the massacres at Kalinin, Starobelsk, and Katyn had been a symbol for the Poles of Moscow’s cruelty and imperial grip. For a Pole merely to hint that the Soviet Union was responsible for the massacres was a radical, even suicidal act, for it made clear the speaker’s point of view: the “friendship of peoples,” the relationship between Moscow and Warsaw, was one based on violence, an occupier’s reign over its satellite.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that’s going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.”

12. “Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that’s going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “I left Gorbachev’s office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.”

13. “I left Gorbachev’s office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “Perhaps one day Russia might even become somehow ordinary, a country of problems rather than catastrophes, a place that develops rather than explodes. That would be something to see.”

14. “Perhaps one day Russia might even become somehow ordinary, a country of problems rather than catastrophes, a place that develops rather than explodes. That would be something to see.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “Clearly independent journalists – domestic journalists – run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.”

15. “Clearly independent journalists – domestic journalists – run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.”

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David Remnick Quote: “100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first – and the other 2% are lying.100.”

16. “100% of the people who get the magazine say they read the cartoons first – and the other 2% are lying.100.”

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David Remnick Quote: “I think it is a more courageous stance to abandon honestly something which has been devalued by history instead of carrying it to the end in your soul.”

17. “I think it is a more courageous stance to abandon honestly something which has been devalued by history instead of carrying it to the end in your soul.”

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David Remnick Quote: “In the lobby, an old woman with legs wrapped in elastic bandages mopped the floor with filthy water. She kept missing the same spot, over and over. There was the overpowering smell of disinfectant, bad tobacco, and wet wool. This was the smell of Russia indoors, the smell of the woman in front of you on line, the smell of every elevator. Near an abandoned newsstand, dozens of overcoats hung on long rows of pegs, somber and dark, lightly steaming, like nags in a stable.”

18. “In the lobby, an old woman with legs wrapped in elastic bandages mopped the floor with filthy water. She kept missing the same spot, over and over. There was the overpowering smell of disinfectant, bad tobacco, and wet wool. This was the smell of Russia indoors, the smell of the woman in front of you on line, the smell of every elevator. Near an abandoned newsstand, dozens of overcoats hung on long rows of pegs, somber and dark, lightly steaming, like nags in a stable.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “I’m not the slowest writer that you know.”

19. “I’m not the slowest writer that you know.”

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David Remnick Quote: “There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.”

20. “There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.”

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David Remnick Quote: “Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what’s more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.”

21. “Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what’s more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.”

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David Remnick Quote: “I actually have great hopes for the future.”

22. “I actually have great hopes for the future.”

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David Remnick Quote: “She gave Stalin the letter and asked him to deliver it; for a moment, at least, one of the great murderers of the twentieth century played mailman for a young girl in love.”

23. “She gave Stalin the letter and asked him to deliver it; for a moment, at least, one of the great murderers of the twentieth century played mailman for a young girl in love.”

— David Remnick

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David Remnick Quote: “I have to always remember, writing is really hard.”

24. “I have to always remember, writing is really hard.”

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David Remnick Quote: “I’m a journalist – I’m not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one – a joyfully consuming one.”

25. “I’m a journalist – I’m not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one – a joyfully consuming one.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “Not all political prisoners are innocents.”

26. “Not all political prisoners are innocents.”

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David Remnick Quote: “Without recognizing it, we have already stepped over the threshold of such a change. I believe that we are at the end of nature.”

27. “Without recognizing it, we have already stepped over the threshold of such a change. I believe that we are at the end of nature.”

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David Remnick Quote: “Most of the people I knew were doing one thing but considered themselves to be something else: all the waitresses I knew were really actresses, all the Xeroxers in the Xerox place were really novelists, all the receptionists were artists.”

28. “Most of the people I knew were doing one thing but considered themselves to be something else: all the waitresses I knew were really actresses, all the Xeroxers in the Xerox place were really novelists, all the receptionists were artists.”

— David Remnick

David Remnick Quote: “For a teenage girl, finding the balance between childhood fearlessness and adult vulnerability can be tougher than landing a triple axel.”

29. “For a teenage girl, finding the balance between childhood fearlessness and adult vulnerability can be tougher than landing a triple axel.”

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David Remnick Quote: “Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I’m ruthlessly efficient with my time.”

30. “Everybody has a cartoon of themselves. Mine is: I write very fast, and I’m ruthlessly efficient with my time.”

— David Remnick

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