# Garry Kasparov

- Quotes: 10
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/garry-kasparov

## Books

- [Winter Is Coming](https://www.leafyquotes.com/garry-kasparov/winter-is-coming.md) — 10 quotes

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> Communism is like an autoimmune disorder; it doesn't do the killing itself, but it weakens the system so much that the victim is left helpless and unable to fight off anything else.

p. 33

> Reforms are only institutional if they have a real effect on how people live.

p. 100

> Anatoly Karpov and I donated the prize fund from our 1986 world championship match to the Chernobyl victim relief fund.

p. 17

> We must decide what we value and decide what is worth fighting for and then–the most important part–we must fight for it.

p. 62

> The NSA is to the Stasi what a bad hotel is to a maximum security prison.

p. 223

> Somehow people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one.

> It's not common, in our age, for someone to retire while still at the top, but I'm a man who needs a goal, and who wants to make a difference.

p. 136

> Each victory pulls the victor down slightly and makes it harder to put in maximum effort to improve further.

> The United States is a very different thing. It's a continent-spanning nation built from scratch by millions of immigrants from every part of the world on top of its native population.

p. 42

> Great leaders are formed only by taking on great challenges.

p. 190