Author of quotes: Vladimir Pozner

First they came for the Communists and I said nothing because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the socialists and I said nothing because I'm not a social Democrat.
Then they came for the trade unions and I said nothing, because it is not a Union member.
Then they came for the Jews and I did not protest because I was not a Jew.
And when they came for me there was no one to protest.

I am against religion because it forces us to give up our human qualities, namely, curiosity, ability to doubt and to ask questions. Religion requires one thing: faith.

Prejudices have nothing to do with logic, but have a direct relationship to ignorance.

In Russia the concept of freedom is replaced by the notion of the will, and the will says what you want, then come back.

I just felt that in essence, I'm not Russian. What does that mean exactly? Reply almost impossible, because it's almost impossible to give a precise definition of "Russian-ness". in one of my TV shows Nikita Mikhalkov said that the Russian might be the only one who have something there, but there is not that it was necessarily, and so what, to hell with it. Allow...

The great art just like Everest, like the ocean, like a fire. Simplicity is the beauty, power, immortality and unfathomable complexity.

We see and hear only what you want to see and hear you and ignore what contradicts our beliefs and opinions.

The American health care system is more like "bandits RAID than humane medical help."
About 47 million Americans have no health insurance, without which it is impossible to expect to be treated - it is so expensive that very few can pay it. 45 million is 15 % of the US population who actually can't count on medical services. American medicine is justly considered one of the strongest in the world. But the health care system, no doubt, is one of the worst.

Strange thing: the American school education is one of the worst in the world; and American higher education is one of the best if not the best...

Sometimes it seems that without advertising, the Americans lost, they would not know what to buy and why to buy.

- America is still divided into two parts, one for white, one for black, so this is still a racist country.
- What do you mean by "racist country?
- By this I mean that in this country black people are discriminated against, they are considered worse than white, they are treated as equals. As we know, with them are treated worse in the courts - and this applies to all blacks, including well-educated. With them are turning worse at work, they were paid less. So I would say that this is racism. And in this sense is a racist country.

America would not be America, if the subject of work, let unprofessional, not tried to turn into a source of income.

Arrogant Americans in General.

- What you mean to be American?
- "So those who want to do what I want, to be free, if you do not limit the freedom of another."
I doubt that this would tell the taxi driver of any other country. And not just the taxi driver.