Life makes no sense if you have to tolerate endless lies. I will never accept this system, which is built on lies, i will not stop my fight against this junta.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

Without any doubt, I am striving for power.

Xenophobia is fairly widespread in Russia.

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

I don't know why, but Putin has made a ritual out of humiliating Medvedev. Sometimes I even feel sorry for the prime minister.

When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.

People don't believe in positive changes anymore.

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

I don't really know who I am, and I don't know when to stop, so if I see a great big threatening button that should never ever be touched I just want to do this!

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

If something looks difficult, it is more fantastic to do it! Stay away from the easy things!

The first commitment is raise your salary. One of the ways to raise your salary sometimes is to have short-term profits but there are many other ways.

10 days before the death of St. John Paul II, in that Via Crucis of Holy Friday, Joseph Ratzinger said to the whole Church that it needed to clean up the dirt of the Church.