JJ Vladimir Quotes

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

Because you took advantage of my disadvantage.

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.

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.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

President al-Assad and his army are the only force that actually fights ISIS.

We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

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

But with the Berlin, I was able to allow him to get near, but not quite near enough, and I knew where to draw the line with the fortresses I had set up.

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.

A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

I did not know that [ the Chancellor Angela Merkel is a bit frightened of dogs]. I wanted to make her happy. When I learned that she does not like dogs, I apologized, of course.

There’s no grandfatherly fondness in me, There are no gray hairs in my soul! Shaking the world with my voice and grinning, I pass you by, - handsome, Twentytwoyearold.

Russia's partners should understand it's best not to mess with us.

Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.

Money can buy many things. Even power.

The reflection of nature in man's thought must be understood not lifelessly but in the eternal process of movement, the arising of contradictions and their solution.

Who can say what heartbreaks are caused in a dog by our discontinuing a romp?

Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented.

I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.

I believe that interpretation should be like a transparent glass, a window for the composer's music.

The true leader must submerge himself in the fountain of the people.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.

It is simply that we treat Japanese history, the history of the Japanese people and its unique culture with greater respect and interest. This generates enormous interest in Russia!

The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

Mathematics is a part of physics. Physics is an experimental science, a part of natural science. Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap.

I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.

Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.

In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.

We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.

My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.

The Russians have turned out to be the largest divided nation in the world nowadays. Is that not a problem?

Democracy is an internal subject of the developing society. There are fundamentals of democracy, and they should be understood universally in different countries.

I have never changed. I feel as young as I always did and remain close friends with Gerhard Schröder.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

... my mind lay limp in an empty world.

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.