JJ Vladimir Quotes

Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.

The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will.

But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.

The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other country, foreign policy is used for internal political struggle.

You know every stage of your life has an impact on you.

Victory will belong only to those who have faith in the people, those who are immersed in the life-giving spring of popular creativity.

Love is more of a respect for a mystery than a desire to know.

My face is my passport.

There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.

The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.

Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost.

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.

I am convinced, the way one plays chess always reflects the player's personality. If something defines his character, then it will also define his way of playing.

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

There is nothing that in the end, cannot be forgiven.

All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

I hope that being in places from the [Shinzo Abe] Prime Minister's past will motivate us to have a sincere, very practical and, I hope, productive conversation.

Bah, tombstones are only good for pigeons to sit on

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or to fulfil some non-existent imperial ambitions.

Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Imperialism, in a sense, is the transition stage from capitalism to Socialism. . . . It is capitalism dying, not dead.

The Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

Japan has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation. How are we going to further economic relations on a new and much higher basis, at a higher level under the sanctions regime?

We set ourselves the ultimate aim of abolishing the state, i.e., all organized and systematic violence, all use of violence against people in general.

Words without experience are meaningless.

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.

I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable.

An increase of two or three degrees wouldn't be so bad for a northern country like Russia. We could spend less on fur coats, and the grain harvest would go up.

For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.

As to our trade and economic relations with China, they are growing more and more diverse each day, something we have worked on for a long time with our partners from China.