Khodorkovsky Mikhail Quotes & Sayings

Putin doesn't need Donbass (east Ukraine). He wants to determine the fate of the world at talks with a U.S. President, putin is dreaming of getting a deal with the United States about a new-old order for the world, when the world is split on zone of influence. When you cannot interfere in someone else's zone. Not even to mention internal politics. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person. — Blaise Pascal

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

As though on a seedling whose blossoms ripen at different times, I had seen in old ladies, on that beach at Balbec, the dried-up seeds and sagging tubers that my girl-friends would become. But, now that it was time for buds to blossom, what did that matter? — Marcel Proust

I'm not an ordinary prisoner. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton. — John C. Reilly

Surprised huh, thought you had me back in prison didn't you? To answer your question what keeps me alive is my drive, my drive to kill you! I have nothing, but hate for you and your family. It will be my pleasure taking you out. I don't care about power, plutonium or even being rich. None of that matters to me. I only care about taking you out. Even if I die I want to be the one who is called the killer of Angel Medina! There's no where for you to go. Now we will truly see who is better! Come on put up you hands and prepare for your final battle of your life! - Orlando from Framed: The Second Book of the Thousand Years War — Angel Ramon Medina

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Women take a much larger risk, evolutionarily speaking, when they have sex. Sex is also a much larger investment for women than it is for men. For this reason, women have emotional circuitry designed to take this into account. For example, women tend to experience much more anxiety just prior to sex with a new lover. — Mystery

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

20)1Jesus is not the Christ in himself. 2The Christ is the Son of God, and no one is left outside of the Christ. — Regina Dawn Akers

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I'm not a masochist. I'm simply into trying to enjoy what I do, because otherwise there's no point. — Marilyn Manson

Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I'm somebody's who's in favor of transparency and openness. — John Barrasso

I certainly want to be involved in politics and help shape the transition. I am in contact with regime critics who had to leave for the West. One of them is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former businessman, who had to endure 10 years in a prison camp. — Garry Kasparov

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds. — Marilyn Vos Savant

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years. — Andrea Riseborough

I really hope it engenders a lot of conversation because I believe there are a lot of people who put on faces. We all do it, every time we walk out the door. And there are a lot of people who have to hide who they are. And I think this story speaks to that. — Glenn Close

If God had meant us to have group sex, he'd have given us more organs. — Malcolm Bradbury

The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions that are based on the project principle, which means that they are put together for each project. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I established my bank in 1988. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement. — Mary Crosby

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Keep your heart and mind steady on your dreams. Ask God for guidance and wisdom to help you fulfill your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. — William Shakespeare

My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky