During the election in 1989, there was the first Soviet election with alternative candidates to local government. I myself arranged special training for them.

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing.

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go.

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.