JJ Vladimir Quotes
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.
Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out, like me And become just two lips entirely?
Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
If someone wants to open this Pandora's box and deal with it, all right, go for it then.
On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.
Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.
But I, from poetry's skies, plunge into communism, because without it I feel no love.
Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.
There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness.
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
Why don't you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace?
Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.
I am the president of 146 million Russians. I have to represent their interests. We are willing to settle this without any conflicts and to search for compromises on the basis of international law.
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.
Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
It is rightly said that the most difficult thing in chess is winning a won position
In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.
A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer.
Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.
Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.
A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.
Face the truth squarely. In politics that is always the best and the only correct attitude.
Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won.
The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.
The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.
