Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.


Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

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Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the h...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss som...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Caress the detail, the divine detail.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
VLADIMIR KRAMNIK
Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human vict...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Terrorism has no nationality or religion.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay ...
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY
At least in Russia, you cannot just go and tap into someone's phone conversation without a warra...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Scriabin slept with Chopin under his pillow, and I slept with Wagner under mine. I could not concent...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ
It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the mu...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ
Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the Un...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Here in Russia,, in many cities, people are irritated by Caucasian intrusion. Caucasians come from f...
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern lite...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
One can truly enjoy his or her life only while experiencing it, and it is inevitably related to a ce...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terror...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Chechnya is part and parcel of the Russian Federation.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.
VLADIMIR PUTIN
He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, t...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY
I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
You need to put drones under control; you need to lay out certain rules of engagement in order to pr...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Of the not very many ways known of shedding one's body, falling, falling, falling is the supreme met...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
I have never stated Russia is an energy superpower, but we have more reserves than almost anybody el...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain nat...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '9...
VLADIMIR PUTIN
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV