JJ Vladimir Quotes

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.

If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.

In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't.

I don't like to show my emotions at the board, not because they might give something away to an opponent, but because that's my style: I like to keep it to myself.

A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.

I would like to repeat: I know absolutely nothing about [hacker's attacks], and Russia has never done anything like this at the State level.

I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how to pose the questions and explain the problems.

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

Nowhere is it written that NATO had to accept certain countries. All that would have been required to refrain from doing so was the political will. But people didn't want to.

Computers have changed the world of chess.

Chess is a matter of daily training.

It is necessary - secretly and urgently to prepare the terror.

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.

Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names.

I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.

I believe that meetings at the top level in a relatively informal atmosphere are always useful, and there is reason to hope that we will make progress in resolving the matters we will be considering.

Every cook must learn to rule the State.

I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze I cannot get out, said the starling

History causes the military problem to become the essence of the political problem.

The UN platform was created precisely for this, to seek compromise, to communicate with one another. So it will definitely be nice if we make use of this platform.

The Jewish bourgeoisie are our enemies, not as Jews but as bourgeoisie. The Jewish worker is our brother.

The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.

Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.

Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.

The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

I would like to deal with a person who is able to take responsible decisions and implement the agreements reached. The name [Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton] does not matter.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

First, the constitution [of Ukraine] has to be reformed. Only then can confidence building and border security follow.

Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn't imagine I would have been so energetic during the match - it really gave me a welcomed extra boost!

Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.

We didn't have any relationship at all with Trump.

It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.

Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.