We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.
Interpretation
Putin's disregard for the law highlights his authoritarian rule.
This quote by Garry Kasparov emphasizes the long-standing perception of Vladimir Putin as a dictator who knowingly operates outside the bounds of legality. It suggests a systemic issue in governance where authoritarian leaders manipulate laws to maintain power rather than uphold justice or democratic principles.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about authoritarian regimes.
There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?
Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles.
Botvinnik tried to take the mystery out of Chess, always relating it to situations in ordinary life. He used to call chess a typical inexact problem similar to those which people are always having to solve in everyday life.
One does not succeed by sticking to convention. When your opponent can easily anticipate every move you make, your strategy deteriorates and becomes commoditized.
I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed so much freedom and happiness as the people of these United States. You have no longer any cause to fear danger from abroad... It is from within, among yourselves - from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power.
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
They say, oh, letβs have multiparty politics. Letβs have different parties change and be in charge of the Government. Is it that simple? You vote in a Division Three government, not a Division One government, and the whole economy will just subside within three, four years. Finished.
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.
It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.
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