Top 66 Ilyich Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ilyich

#1. The story of Ivan Ilyich life was of the simplest, most ordinary and therefore most terrible. Tolstoy defines living an ordinary life as terrible - I really do have to agree!

Leo Tolstoy

#2. and Ivan Ilyich was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others, and that this poison did not weaken but penetrated more and more deeply into his whole being. With

Leo Tolstoy

#3. As we medical students saw it, the failure of those around Ivan Ilyich to offer comfort or to acknowledge what is happening to him was a failure of character and culture.

Atul Gawande

#4. We decided it here. Ilyich [Lenin] believed that we shouldn't leave the Whites a live banner to rally around, especially under the present difficult circumstances.

Yakov Sverdlov

#5. It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#6. Official science tried, by a conspiracy of silence, to kill the works of Marx, who by a theoretical and historical analysis of capitalism had proved that free competition gives rise to the concentration of production, which, in turn, at a certain stage of development, leads to monopoly.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#7. The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#8. It is more pleasant and useful to undertake the experience of revolution than to write about it.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#9. Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#10. Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of "advanced" countries. And this "booty" is shared between two or

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#11. The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#12. Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#13. I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#14. Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#15. What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought out with love.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#16. There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#17. It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#18. Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#19. Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#20. When Brahms is in extra good spirits, he sings, "The grave is my joy".

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#21. It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#22. Socialism means keeping account of everything. You will have socialism if you take stock of every piece of iron and cloth.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#23. Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#24. What I need is to believe in myself again - for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#25. We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#26. There are no morals in politics; the is only experience. A scoundrel may be of use because he is a scoundrel

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#27. Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#28. The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#29. I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart's content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#30. I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] ... You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#31. Competition becomes transformed into monopoly. The result is immense progress in the socialisation of production. In particular, the process of technical invention and improvement becomes socialised.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#32. One man with a gun can control 100 without one ... Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#33. Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#34. Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#35. The muse doesn't come without being called.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#36. But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop, the greater is the concentration of production and capital which gives rise to monopoly?

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#37. Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#38. If that condition of mind and soul, which we call inspiration, lasted long without intermission, no artist could survive it. The strings would break and the instrument be shattered into fragments.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#39. Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#40. Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#41. Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#42. It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#43. Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#44. A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#45. Mozart is the musical Christ.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#46. I can't listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#47. Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#49. I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#50. After the last notes of Gotterdammerung I felt as though I had been let out of prison.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#51. Brahms stayed an extra day to hear my [Fifth] Symphony and was very kind ... I like his honesty and open-mindedness. Neither he nor the players liked the finale, which I also think rather horrible.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#52. And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#53. To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#54. America, like a few other nations, has become characteristic for the depth of the abyss that divide a handful of brutal millionaires who are stagnating in a mire of luxury, and millions of laboring starving men and women who are always staring want in the face.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#55. Handel is only fourth rate. He's not even interesting.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#56. Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers' cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#57. This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important - if not the most important - phenomena of modern capitalist economy,

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#58. In the history of modern socialism this is a phenomenon, that the strife of the various trends within the socialist movement has from national become international.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#59. I feel I shall live a long time.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#60. Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#61. Sometimes I observe with curiosity that uninterrupted activity which, independent of the subject of any conversation I may be carrying on, continues its course in that department of my brain that is devoted to music.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky