JJ Vladimir Quotes

Russia itself is a European country, and not just because our major political and economic centres are in Europe, but because Russian culture is primarily European culture.

Russia is probably one of the first countries to have been confronted with this problem of terrorism. It took some time before the international community realised the danger terrorism poses.

International terrorists have proved quite skilled at misleading many people about what is actually happening here in the Caucasus, and they continue to mislead people today.

We do not trade territories although concluding a peace treaty with Japan is certainly a key issue and we would like to find a solution to this problem together with our Japanese friends.

Even with the help of anti-Russian propaganda in the mass media, Germany has not succeeded in damaging this sympathy.

We have made mistakes! We were too late. If we had presented our national interests more clearly from the beginning, the world would still be in balance today.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is controlling this, the sanctions against Iran are lifted - but still the US are working on their missile defense system. What is the point of this?

[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.

Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.

I believe that global common interests are a good foundation for finding solutions together.

Russia has not taken part and is not going to take part in any actions aimed at removing legitimate government.

In relations between the states ... the interests of the country should be correlated with the interests of other countries, and compromise is to be found when resolving the most complex issues.

Everyone in Russia must awaken the citizen within himself.

In Russia only those who are loyal to the people in power can become wealthy.

In Russia there are special people who are permitted to do anything. They are the sacrificial priests of power. Anyone who is not a member of this group has no clout with the state.

I ask myself whether Russia is moving in the direction of democracy. I don't believe it is! Bit by bit, Russia is slipping back into an authoritarian empire.

The bureaucracy has grown such powerful roots in Russia, and corruption is so widespread, that people from opposition have no interest in changing anything.

As a storyteller I was influenced by the Moscow underground, where it was common to be apolitical.

Breathing can and should bring you into a ready-to-act condition instantly.

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

Let Catholics build their own churches and works.

We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

Exchange, fair or unfair, always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

While the State exists there can be no freedom when there is freedom there will be no State.

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit.

Let at least one word of my writings impregnate the reader's heart.

I clearly understand, first, that the real human being is a poet and, second, that [the tyrant] is the incarnate negation of a poet.

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

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

You have to be an artist and a madman...

Light in comparison with darkness is a void.

We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to what phase of the process our moment of consciousness corresponds.

Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.

Listen! If stars are litIt means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spitMagnificent!

On I’ll pass, dragging my huge love behind me.On whatfeverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot – I, so bigand by no one needed?

No jewels, save my eyes, do I own, but I have a rose which is even softer than my rosy lips. And a quiet youth said: 'There is nothing softer than your heart.' And I lowered my gaze...

- A sentyment staje się uciążliwy. W końcu jest coś nazbyt fizycznego w próbie zachowania cząstki dzieciństwa na swoim mostku. - Nie pan pierwszy sprowadza wiarę do zmysłu dotyku.

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

Ink, a Drug.