Politkovskaya Quotes

#1. Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

Alexander Lebedev

#2. At least a circus performance does not last long, and the regime availing itself of the services of clownish journalists has the longevity of a mouldering mushroom.

Anna Politkovskaya

#3. Sow truth, if thou the truth wouldst reap: Who sows the false shall reap the vain.

Horatius Bonar

#4. Who thinks, I'm going to cheat on my girlfriend, but I've got too much of a social conscience to leave my condom wrapper on the floor - heaven forbid I litter.

Penny Reid

#5. Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

Howard Barker

#6. Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.

Larry Ellison

#7. We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good.

Anna Politkovskaya

#8. While I pride myself on trying to be creative in all areas of my life, I have occasionally gone overboard, like the time I decided to bring to a party a salad that I constructed, on a huge rattan platter, to look like a miniature scale model of the Gardens of Babylon.

Gregory Maguire

#9. When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

Leo Buscaglia

#10. One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.

Bram Cohen

#11. What matter is the information, not what you think about it.

Anna Politkovskaya

#12. Think about it. When you die you'll be surrounded bu the people you killed. Who the hells goes around killing people they like? In the Afterdeath we'll be surrounded by our enemies.

Michael R. Fletcher

#13. Have you ever been in love?"
"...in a way."
"It's always 'in a way.

Irving Stone

#14. Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on your veranda admiring your absurd petunias?

Anna Politkovskaya

#15. This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is to implement unquestioningly whatever political escapades those in power dream up. Cogs have no rights. Not even to dignity in death.

Anna Politkovskaya

#16. The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

Eugene Field

#17. Boys and men are the same people, in different clothes. Boys wear short trousers and men wear long trousers. But they are just the same if you take their trousers off.

Alexander McCall Smith

#18. People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.

Anna Politkovskaya

#19. How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nationality, and increasing the numbers doesn't change much.

Anna Politkovskaya

#20. He is the cornerstone of a defining life moment for me.

Kitty Thomas