JJ Vladimir Quotes

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

Comrade life, let us march faster, March faster through what's left of the five-year plan.

In the current FIDE World Championship, on the knock-out system, weaker players have good chances. Those, who in a long match would practically have no chance, here may creep through.

Too slow, the wagons of years, The oxen of days--too glum. Our god is the god of speed, Our heart--our battle-drum.

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

The Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat, as the saying goes. It knows whom to eat and is not about to listen to anyone, it seems.

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.

The West should be even more vocal in insisting that the Russians respect human rights.

Nothing has changed in Russia since Ivan the Terrible when it comes to the divide between the people and the state. The state demands a sacred willingness to make sacrifices from the people.

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

Ideological talk and phrase mongering about political liberties should be disposed with; all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering. We should get away from those phrases.

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.

I am a human being, a citizen of the Russian Federation, a Russian.

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

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

Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.

The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.

Non-Russian readers do not realize two things: that not all Russians love Dostoievsky as much as Americans do, and that most of those Russians who do, venerate him as a mystic and not as an artist.

The future is but the obsolete in reverse.

Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.

Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

I'm convinced that a person in my position must provide a positive example to people.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my tears.

For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

Europe, I have lived in your future, and I did not like it.

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

People aren't angels woven of light, but neither are they beasts to be driven into stalls.

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.

I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.

Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing.

My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?

A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection.

No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.

Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system - we will not go back there.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.