JJ Vladimir Quotes

The leaders of the petty bourgeoisie must teach the people to trust the bourgeoisie. The proletarians must teach the people to distrust the bourgeoisie.

We are most artistically caged.

Russians have different far lofty ambitions; more of a spiritual kind. It's more about your relationship with God .

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

Atheism is the natural and inseparable part of Communism.

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but - a cloud in trousers.

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.

Dear Jesus, do something.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic or over world capitalism.

If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class collaboration?

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

The evolution of sense is, in a sense, the evolution of nonsense.

If Russia's interests and security are threatened, Russia will resist. Everyone needs to know that.

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.

We discussed this very important issue yesterday over a beer.

One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.

To us love says humming that the heart's stalled motor has begun working again.

We in Russia have always considered Russians and Ukrainians to be one people. I still think so.

if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

It's difficult to talk to people who whisper even at home, afraid of Americans eavesdropping on them. It's not a figure of speech, not a joke, I'm serious.

Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

Homosexuals in Russia live in peace, work, are promoted, receive national awards for their achievements in science, art or any other sphere, medals are awarded to them, I have awarded them myself.

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.

Living matter is the most powerful geological force.

The matter of international relations is very subtle and exquisite.

Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.

The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.

I go to bed at 4 a. m. Almost all chessplayers do.