Garry Kasparov Quotes

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

What we're looking for at my school is intellectuals. People who want to talk about the art and be knowledgeable about it. People who want to know the history. Not everybody needs to be performing.

Pretty much everyone on my iPod, I'd like to be friends with. But I'd say that the main two that I'd love to get into a conversation with are Werner Herzog and Graham Hancock.

Italians think with their heads.

Latin is beautiful and has become something of an international language, but there is also something about singing in your native language that has meaning.

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

I believe in the romantic interchange between intellectuals about fashion.

I don't want any of my sisters to be like Tomi Lahren. You all are smarter, sharper, more articulate, brilliant, so why would I want y'all to be like her?

Some people spend their time reasoning and thinking out everything, and so anything that cannot be fully understood, they will not accept. We call these people 'intellectuals.'

They don't make people like Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley anymore.

I like George Will, I don't agree with him particularly, but he's probably the smartest conservative out there.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.

The school even had a Latin motto: Pergo et Perago, which sounded like the story of two Italian cannibals but which actually meant “I try and I achieve.

Anything would be better in the US than what you have. As a government it's really very low quality, given the fact that this country produces eminent intellectuals, has great universities, and then the people who arrive in government are very mediocre. The Latin American situation has been very different in the first place, because writers have spoken for those who have no voice. The rate of illiteracy, poverty, joblessness in Latin America has been so great throughout our history that if the writers didn't speak out for the people, nobody would.

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.

I can criticize your religion all I want, and you can criticize mine. I don't like this whole climate of, 'You can't ever say anything bad about the group I'm in, cause every group is untouchable.' We can all criticize each other and engage in debate all we want.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

I thought one only had to speak Latin through one's nose and bite off the end.

Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.

I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had it, as far as being a judge was concerned... I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

Sydney: I like Latin. It's fun. Eddie: I can't believe you think we're the strange ones.