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Quotes from Winter is Coming — Garry Kasparov

born 1963 Armenia

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The United States is a very different thing. It's a continent-spanning nation built from scratch by millions of immigrants from every part of the world on top of its native population.

Winter is Coming (2015)

Reforms are only institutional if they have a real effect on how people live.

Winter is Coming (2015)

The NSA is to the Stasi what a bad hotel is to a maximum security prison.

Winter is Coming (2015)

Great leaders are formed only by taking on great challenges.

Winter is Coming (2015)

Somehow people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one.

Winter is Coming (2015)

Communism is like an autoimmune disorder; it doesn't do the killing itself, but it weakens the system so much that the victim is left helpless and unable to fight off anything else.

Winter is Coming (2015)

We must decide what we value and decide what is worth fighting for and then–the most important part–we must fight for it.

Winter is Coming (2015)

Anatoly Karpov and I donated the prize fund from our 1986 world championship match to the Chernobyl victim relief fund.

Winter is Coming (2015)

Each victory pulls the victor down slightly and makes it harder to put in maximum effort to improve further.

Winter is Coming (2015)

It's not common, in our age, for someone to retire while still at the top, but I'm a man who needs a goal, and who wants to make a difference.

Winter is Coming (2015)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Garry Kasparov (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.