“For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but pe...” — Nursultan Nazarbayev Quote

“For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.”

“When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.”

“In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.”

“Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him.”

“Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics which is going to count, but the fact of having given life to feelings, of having created characters and made a living work of art.”