Quotes by Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

And so, now things that are important are, for example, the upcoming elections. It’s important that society demonstrate that it is not pretending that these elections are elections.

Election

Important

Pretending

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

Essence

Life

Money

I established my bank in 1988.

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

Conviction

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

Home

Relaxation

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it’s done today.

Done

Government

President

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

Dependable

Furniture

Heavy

If we talk about changes of power in Russia, that has occurred several times in the past century. After Stalin came Khrushchev, who implemented his legacy quite radically, one could say. But there was no blood, nonetheless. After Brezhnev came Gorbachev. I’m not talking about the ones who were in power for only a short period of time. Gorbachev, too, left a very radical legacy.

Legacy

Past

Radical

It’s a very erroneous strategy to try to push the Russian opposition to unite. First of all, the opposition is addressing different parts of Russian society that have differing points of view. And besides, a united opposition is a nice big target that the authorities have a much easier time fighting. And besides, resisting an authoritarian regime with an authoritarian opposition merely means that, in the event of victory, you’re just doing yet another round of the same old, same old.

Fighting

Mean

Nice

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

Party

Political

Views

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Country

Dangerous

Dependable

Done

Dream

Economy

Election

Enemy

Essence

Everyday

Factories

Fate

Fighting

Furniture

Government

Hard Work

Heavy

Home

Important

Leader

Legacy

Life

Long

Management

Mean

Money

Nice

Obvious

Parent

Party

Past

People

Political

President

Pretending

Principles

Problem

Radical

Real

Relaxation

Responsibility

Today

Together

Ukraine

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Quotes by Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

And so, now things that are important are, for example, the upcoming elections. It’s important that society demonstrate that it is not pretending that these elections are elections.

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

I established my bank in 1988.

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it’s done today.

I like everything to be dependable, heavy, English furniture.

Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

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