George Bernard Shaw

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges – challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.

The events in Crimea themselves have nothing to do with what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other regions. In my opinion, when the world becomes unipolar, or when someone tries to make it so, then this one pole has the illusion that all issues can be settled through power. And only when there is a balance of power does the desire to negotiate appears.

My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.

I do have a relationship [with Putin] and I can tell you he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today

Advance towards socialism cannot but cause the exploiting elements to resist the advance, and the resistance of the exploiters cannot but lead to the inevitable sharpening of the class struggle.

We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

If you look at the American army’s counterinsurgency literature…it begins with an analysis of the German experience in Europe, written with the cooperation of Nazi officers…which techniques for controlling resistance worked, which ones didn’t.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

People are tired of seeing politicians as all talk and no action.

Politics in the true sense, have to do with the prosperity, peace and security of the people.

Our task, your task… is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, ‘Well, where’s the smoking gun?’ Well, we don’t want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

This American government – what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.