Aslan Maskhadov famous quotes

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
-- Aslan Maskhadov

#Ambition #Independence #Survival

I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
-- Aslan Maskhadov

#War #Peaceful #President

Western States keep playing with, and around, Russia.
-- Aslan Maskhadov

#Russia #Gdp #States

A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.
-- Aslan Maskhadov

#Vaccines #Long #Als

The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.
-- Aslan Maskhadov

#War #Moscow #Eras

It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people
-- Aslan Maskhadov

#Responsibility #Fighting #Army

It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya.
-- Aslan Maskhadov

#Army #Fighting #Russia

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

My only ambition when I came to Hollywood was to pay my rent.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.

Reverse Darwinism: survival of the most idiotic.