“If with all your power
you kissed the angel of love,
what then might happen?”
Source: The River of Winged Dreams
“People think, Hey, I love kids, I want to write children’s books. But they think children are happy. That’s their first mistake. [Messinger, Jonathan. "Guilt for dinner: The Mo Willems interview." Hipsqueak. 5 May 2011. Web. 18 November 2011.]”
“The particular importance of the Ukrainian Orange Revolution is not, however, that it took place in such a large and important country in the former Soviet empire or that it inspired many countries still burdened with postcommunism, but in something perhaps even more significant: that revolution gave a clear answer to a still open question: where does one of the major spheres of civilization in the world today (the so-called West) end, and where does the other sphere (the so-called East, or rather Euro-Asia) begin? I recall — and I mentioned this during my meeting with Yuschenko — that an important American politician once asked me where Ukraine belongs. My impression is that it belongs to what we call the West. But that’s not what I said; I said that this was a matter for Ukraine to decide for itself.”
Source: To the Castle and Back: Reflections on My Strange Life as a Fairy-Tale Hero
“You can get arrested if you live in Russia, and you say that there is war in Ukraine. You can only say “special operation”. There is a popular joke in Russia: Tolstoy’s War and Peace should be now renamed Special Operation and Peace.”
“Every second I am dying inside, for Ukraine. I'm dying for Afghanistan, I'm dying for Palestine, I'm dying for Kashmir. Even my pen pours blood. And this bleeding won't stop till I put an end to the bloodshed of the innocents.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“When the tyrant slaps you once, slap them back twice, like a concerned parent, and say, no more.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“War is Expensive (The Sonnet)
War is expensive, peace is free,
Yet war is petty, peace is priceless.
War is childish, peace is for adults,
Yet war is complex, peace is child's play.
War is for fools, peace is for the sage,
Yet sages sustain war, deeming peace foolish.
War is strain on the brain, peace only needs love,
Yet intellectuals justify war, calling peace rubbish.
War is good for maintaining control over the people,
Hence imperialists peddle war in the name of justice.
But all imperialists are the fault of the civilians,
All wars are a failure of our civilized citizenship.
No war is tougher than the civilians of the world.
Exercise that potential to abolish all imperial gall.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“Don't be like the nitwit Americans of January 6 who felt threatened by the equalization of the American people, instead, be like those brave Russians who have the guts to stand up for life, liberty and equality of their neighbors, even at the risk of being persecuted as traitor to their country.”
Source: High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination
“When Germany and Russia signed the first Nord Stream pipeline deal in 2005, enormously increasing the flow of Gazprom's gas to the West, it was denounced by Poland’s foreign minister as a second coming of the Hitler-Stalin Pact that had sealed Poland’s fate in 1939. When Moscow tweaked Ukraine’s gas prices over the winter of 2005-2006, it only confirmed the Poles’ worst fears.”
Source: Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
“Моя Россия Моя Ответственность
(Сонет Гражданских Прав)
Моя Россия, моя любовь, мне жаль,
Что мир стал нашим врагом.
Но разве можно их винить!
Мы сделали террориста нашим лидером.
Пробудитесь, встаньте, товарищи мои,
Вдохновляйтесь доблестью Волги!
Хватит этой апатии, пришло время вытеснить,
Домашний вирус и продезинфицировать нашу нацию.
Мы выпустили террориста на наших соседей,
Кто ответит за это кровопролитие - мы, кто еще!
Даже сейчас, если мы не исправим нашу ошибку,
Одна первобытная обезьяна уничтожит нашу планету.
Моя Россия моя ответственность, это золотой закон.
Хватит завоеваний! Пришло время быть человеком.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting