Top 70 Vasily Grossman Quotes (2024 Update)
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Vasily Grossman Quote: “Each wave breaking against the cliff would believe it was dying for the good of the sea; it would never occur to it that, like thousands of waves before and after, it had only been brought into being by the wind.”

51. “Each wave breaking against the cliff would believe it was dying for the good of the sea; it would never occur to it that, like thousands of waves before and after, it had only been brought into being by the wind.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “When people are to be slaughtered en masse, the local population is not immediately gripped by a bloodthirsty hatred of the old men, women and children who are to be destroyed. It is necessary to prepare the population by means of a special campaign. And in this case it is not enough to rely merely on the instinct for self-preservation; it is necessary to stir up feelings of real hatred and revulsion.”

52. “When people are to be slaughtered en masse, the local population is not immediately gripped by a bloodthirsty hatred of the old men, women and children who are to be destroyed. It is necessary to prepare the population by means of a special campaign. And in this case it is not enough to rely merely on the instinct for self-preservation; it is necessary to stir up feelings of real hatred and revulsion.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “Shargorodsky was a very gentle man, and quite helpless in any practical matter. He was the sort of man about whom people say, ‘He’s got the soul of a child,’ or ‘He’s as kind as an angel.’ And yet he could walk straight past a hungry child or a ragged old woman begging for crusts, feeling quite indifferent, still muttering his favourite lines of poetry.”

53. “Shargorodsky was a very gentle man, and quite helpless in any practical matter. He was the sort of man about whom people say, ‘He’s got the soul of a child,’ or ‘He’s as kind as an angel.’ And yet he could walk straight past a hungry child or a ragged old woman begging for crusts, feeling quite indifferent, still muttering his favourite lines of poetry.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “Stalin’s hatred for the Old Bolsheviks who opposed him was also a hatred for those aspects of Lenin’s character that contradicted what was most essential in Lenin.”

54. “Stalin’s hatred for the Old Bolsheviks who opposed him was also a hatred for those aspects of Lenin’s character that contradicted what was most essential in Lenin.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “Fascism will perish for the very reason that it has applied to man the laws applicable to atoms and cobblestones!”

55. “Fascism will perish for the very reason that it has applied to man the laws applicable to atoms and cobblestones!”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “What was all this? He knew only too well. The statistical method! Probability theory! There was a greater probability of finding enemies among people of a non-proletarian background. And it was on these same grounds – probability theory – that the German Fascists had destroyed whole peoples and nations. The principle was inhuman, blind and inhuman. There was only one acceptable way of relating to people – a human way.”

56. “What was all this? He knew only too well. The statistical method! Probability theory! There was a greater probability of finding enemies among people of a non-proletarian background. And it was on these same grounds – probability theory – that the German Fascists had destroyed whole peoples and nations. The principle was inhuman, blind and inhuman. There was only one acceptable way of relating to people – a human way.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “I had been imagining what war was like – everything on fire, children crying, cats running about, and when we got to Stalingrad it really turned out to be like that, only more terrible.”

57. “I had been imagining what war was like – everything on fire, children crying, cats running about, and when we got to Stalingrad it really turned out to be like that, only more terrible.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “How many people there were like him – forgotten during unforgettable years.”

58. “How many people there were like him – forgotten during unforgettable years.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “Informers and stool pigeons are full of virtue, they should all be released and sent home – but how vile they are! Vile for all their virtues, vile even with all their sins absolved... Who was it who made that cruel joke about the proud sound made by the word “Man”?”

59. “Informers and stool pigeons are full of virtue, they should all be released and sent home – but how vile they are! Vile for all their virtues, vile even with all their sins absolved... Who was it who made that cruel joke about the proud sound made by the word “Man”?”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “Reactionaries seek to excise and destroy the deepest and most essentially human aspects of a nation’s character; they promulgate its most inhuman and superficial aspects. They prefer the husk to the kernel. When they promulgate nationalism, reactionaries try to destroy what people share at a deep level; they recognize only what people share at the most superficial level.”

60. “Reactionaries seek to excise and destroy the deepest and most essentially human aspects of a nation’s character; they promulgate its most inhuman and superficial aspects. They prefer the husk to the kernel. When they promulgate nationalism, reactionaries try to destroy what people share at a deep level; they recognize only what people share at the most superficial level.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “Her grief was the same grief that breathed on this deck, a grief that had always known the way from the military hospitals and graves of the front back to the huts of peasants, huts without numbers standing on patches of waste ground without a name.”

61. “Her grief was the same grief that breathed on this deck, a grief that had always known the way from the military hospitals and graves of the front back to the huts of peasants, huts without numbers standing on patches of waste ground without a name.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “The most fundamental change in people at this time was a weakening of their sense of individual identity; their sense of fate grew correspondingly stronger.”

62. “The most fundamental change in people at this time was a weakening of their sense of individual identity; their sense of fate grew correspondingly stronger.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “The country had seen mighty tractors and skyscrapers... There was only one thing Russia had not seen during this thousand years: freedom.”

63. “The country had seen mighty tractors and skyscrapers... There was only one thing Russia had not seen during this thousand years: freedom.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “These camps – with their streets and squares, their hospitals and flea markets, their crematoria and their stadiums – were the expanding cities of a new Europe.”

64. “These camps – with their streets and squares, their hospitals and flea markets, their crematoria and their stadiums – were the expanding cities of a new Europe.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “Freedom is the right to sow what you want. It’s the right to make boots or shoes, it’s the right to bake bread from the grain you’ve sown and to sell it or not sell it as you choose. It’s the same whether you’re a locksmith or a steelworker or an artist – freedom is the right to live and work as you wish and not as you’re ordered to. But there’s no freedom for anyone – whether you write books, whether you sow grain, or whether you make boots.” That night Ivan Grigoryevich lay.”

65. “Freedom is the right to sow what you want. It’s the right to make boots or shoes, it’s the right to bake bread from the grain you’ve sown and to sell it or not sell it as you choose. It’s the same whether you’re a locksmith or a steelworker or an artist – freedom is the right to live and work as you wish and not as you’re ordered to. But there’s no freedom for anyone – whether you write books, whether you sow grain, or whether you make boots.” That night Ivan Grigoryevich lay.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “They were weeping not because a young man was marrying and leaving his mother but because of the incalculable loss and suffering that Armenians have endured, because they couldn’t not weep for relatives of theirs who had perished during the massacres of 1915, because no joy in the world could make them forget their nation’s grief and their homeland on the other side of Mount Ararat.”

66. “They were weeping not because a young man was marrying and leaving his mother but because of the incalculable loss and suffering that Armenians have endured, because they couldn’t not weep for relatives of theirs who had perished during the massacres of 1915, because no joy in the world could make them forget their nation’s grief and their homeland on the other side of Mount Ararat.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “Nuestro honorable sargento dominaba todas las lenguas, excepto las extranjeras.”

67. “Nuestro honorable sargento dominaba todas las lenguas, excepto las extranjeras.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “What constitutes the freedom, the soul of an individual life, is its uniqueness. The reflection of the universe in someone’s consciousness is the foundation of his or her power, but life only becomes happiness, is only endowed with freedom and meaning when someone exists as a whole world that has never been repeated in all eternity. Only then can they experience the joy of freedom and kindness, finding in others what they have already found in themselves.”

68. “What constitutes the freedom, the soul of an individual life, is its uniqueness. The reflection of the universe in someone’s consciousness is the foundation of his or her power, but life only becomes happiness, is only endowed with freedom and meaning when someone exists as a whole world that has never been repeated in all eternity. Only then can they experience the joy of freedom and kindness, finding in others what they have already found in themselves.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “Time is always the enemy of opportunists and a friend to those who stand on the side of history. It exposes false strength and rewards true strength.”

69. “Time is always the enemy of opportunists and a friend to those who stand on the side of history. It exposes false strength and rewards true strength.”

— Vasily Grossman

Vasily Grossman Quote: “The Russian earth is indeed fertile and generous. She gives birth to her own Platos, to her own quick-witted Newtons – but how casually and terribly she devours these children of hers.”

70. “The Russian earth is indeed fertile and generous. She gives birth to her own Platos, to her own quick-witted Newtons – but how casually and terribly she devours these children of hers.”

— Vasily Grossman

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