| Russian | English |
| в воображении народа | in the popular imagination (Alex_Odeychuk) |
| власть народа | government of the people, by the people, for the people (цитата из Геттисбергской речи Линкольна (см. статью в Википедии); подойдет не для всех контекстов) |
| всякая власть исходит от народа | All power emanates from the people (Габриэ́ль Ла́уб Andrey Truhachev) |
| всякая власть исходит от народа | All power comes from the people (Габриэ́ль Ла́уб Andrey Truhachev) |
| Демократия – это власть народа, избранная народом и для народа | Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. (Авраам Линкольн Andrey Truhachev) |
| Демократия это власть народа, избранная народом и для народа | Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. (Авраам Линкольн Andrey Truhachev) |
| Демократия это народное правление, осуществляемое народом ради народа | Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. (Авраам Линкольн Andrey Truhachev) |
| каждый народ имеет то правительство, которое он заслужил | every nation gets the government it deserves (Joseph-Marie, comte de Maistre, 1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821, a Savoyard lawyer, diplomat, writer, and philosopher.) |
| опиум для народа | opium of the masses (The opium of the people or opium of the masses (German: Opium des Volkes) is a dictum used in reference to religion, derived from a frequently paraphrased partial statement of German sociologist and critic of political economy Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people." This statement was translated from the German original, "Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkes" and is often rendered as "religion ... is the opiate of the masses." The full sentence from Marx translates (including italics) as: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
: Football is the opium of the masses  wikipedia.org ArcticFox) |
| опиум для народа | opiate of the masses (крылатое выражение: What are opiates for masses? In popular usage, the phrase “opiate of the masses” is often employed to refer just to consolation and happiness premiums provided by religion. But Marx argued that people seek comfort in religion and that religion suppresses emancipatory politics, thereby preventing the masses from revolting against those in power. oup.com Aiduza) |
| опиум народа | opium of the people (из работы К.Маркса "К критике гегелевской философии права", см.: К. Маркс. Ф. Энгельс. Сочинения. Издание второе. Том 1. – М.: Госполитиздат, 1955. – С. 415 A.Rezvov) |
| Религия – опиум для народа | Religion ... is the opiate opium of the people masses. (Известная фраза Карла Маркса в переводе с нем. яз. tanyaleer) |
