Grigory Sanakoev famous quotes

You can permit yourself any liberty in the opening except the luxury of a passive position.
-- Grigory Sanakoev

#Luxury #Liberty #Chess

There are no hopeless positions; there are only inferior positions that can be saved. There are no drawn positions; there are only equal ones in which you can play for a win. But at the same time, don't forget that there is no such thing as a won position in which it is impossible to lose.
-- Grigory Sanakoev

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But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.

Perhaps worse still is what liberal societies might do to themselves in the face of this new and different threat [of terrorism]. They begin, by small but dangerous increments, to cease to be as liberal as they once were. They begin to restrict their own hard-won rights and freedoms as a protection against the crminial minority who attempt (and as we thus see, by forcing liberty to commit suidcide, succed in doing) to terrorise society.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.

During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

Chess will always be the master of us all.

Chess is a matter of vanity.