Bob Dylan

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin’ to be so quiet?

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don’t care about a person’s sexual orientation.

A figure who receives money from abroad for his political work, and thus serves some foreign interest, cannot be a politician in Russia.

The line of ‘Make America great again,’ the phrase, that was mine, I came up with it about a year ago, and I kept using it, and everybody’s using it, they are all loving it. I don’t know, I guess I should copyright it, maybe I have copyrighted it.

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

Economic control…is the control of the means for all our ends. And whoever has control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served.

Take, say, the NYT or the Washington Post. They have dual functions and they’re contradictory. One function is to subdue the great beast. But another function is to let their audience, which is an elite audience, gain a tolerably realistic picture of what’s going on in the world.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

So the growth of corporate propaganda in the United States more or less parallels the growth of democracy, for quite straightforward reasons. It’s not any kind of secret. It is discussed very frankly and openly in business literature and academic social-science journals.

I believe health care is a basic right. If education – you’re entitled to an education, why wouldn’t you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

One could see that what you are writing was that today’s meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

The whole world recognizes Russia’s cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority… averts all dangers from my path… if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life.