Khodorkovsky Quotes

#1. I was on Khodorkovsky's payroll myself for ten years. I'm biased because I respect him.

Vladislav Surkov

#2. 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

#3. The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.

Vladimir Sorokin

#4. My parents were Muscovites. They worked at the Kaliber factory.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#5. When the "deity" of the other is deflated, either because it is exhausted or because one becomes accustomed to living with a "god" or a "goddess," there is a terrific sense of ennui and boredom.

Fulton J. Sheen

#6. 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

#7. I think that technology is essentially a continuation of a divestment of theological power that's been happening since The Enlightenment. It's the idea that God can see and hear everything.

Joshua Cohen

#8. I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#9. Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#10. I think of life as a book of stories," he goes on. You move through the stories and the characters change.

Alice Hoffman

#11. This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#12. The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.

Keith Johnstone

#13. Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

William Blake

#14. I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#15. We do not have to become or remain the victims that life sometimes makes us all.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. 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

#17. To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#18. I established my bank in 1988.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#19. You have not had thirty years' experience ... You have had one year's experience 30 times.

J.L. Carr

#20. I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#21. Why does everyone worship them? I mean, they're beautiful but ... " I shrugged. "Lots of people in this world are beautiful."
"They're popular because they're cheerleaders," he said.
I rolled my eyes. "What is it with this town and cheerleaders?

Sarra Cannon

#22. 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

#23. I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#24. A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#25. Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.

John Avlon

#26. The wife reads about something called "the wayward fog" on the Internet. The one who has the affair becomes enveloped in it. His old life and wife become unbearably irritating. His possible new life seems a shimmering dream. All of this has to do with chemicals in the brain, allegedly.

Jenny Offill

#27. Is it so wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection?

Nick Hornby

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. When children reach the age of sixteen, they discover the meaning of life: car keys.

Erma Bombeck

#31. 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

#32. I'm probably laughing at myself more than anyone is, because I'm around me all the time.

Tim Kinsella

#33. Every Holmes must have his Watson

Gyles Brandreth

#34. 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

#35. Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#36. My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky