JJ Vladimir Quotes

Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.

You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.

Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.

Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais!

Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

Perfection itself is imperfection.

Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult to die. To make life is more difficult by far.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more resembles the Soviet Union.

There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.

You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Military police is very timely for our army.

Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen.

Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane.

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

But I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid, nice things, and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place.

The USA experiences the crisis of ideological and moral values.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Natural movement is the shortest way to an effective result. Like the way the water runs, it always finds the right way.

And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

Most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons.

Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.

There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland.

I have several portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust too, a very beautiful one.

If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers!

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.