Garry Kasparov Quotes
born 1963 Armenia
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born 13 April 1963) is a chess grandmaster and political activist.
- Armenia
- Politicians
Also known as: Gary Kasparov, Kasparov, Garry
46 quotes
My nature is that I have to excite myself with a big challenge.
We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!
Reforms are only institutional if they have a real effect on how people live.
The failure of capitalism is still much better than the success of socialism.
We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.
I like to say that the attacker always has the advantage.
This obligation to move can be a burden to a player without strategic vision.
Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.
The NSA is to the Stasi what a bad hotel is to a maximum security prison.
Great leaders are formed only by taking on great challenges.
In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.
You must also have a sense of when to stop.
Somehow people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one.
People ask about dictators, "Why?" But dictators themselves ask, "Why not?"
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Garry Kasparov (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.