Vory Quotes

Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is to suppress it.” – Pope St. Felix III

This is so weird. I specifically remember having a bunch of gay thoughts last week and writing them down in my prayer book.

Ein ser seg sjølv, kjenner det som ein har eit landskap i seg med tørre moar, og skrånande fjellsider med vandrande skuggar over. Dessutan veit ein om stygge og avgøymde stup. Ein går utanom dei, ferdast ikkje på den kanten. Der er ting på botnen av vatnet. La det ligge der. Ingen skal få visst det. La det ligge på havsens botn. – Så kjem det ei minning: Det skal koma ein dag då alt som – Å langt ifrå! svarar ein hastig, og bit det av. Prøver bite det av, for det hjelper ikkje overfor det einvise mælet, det fullfører det som det skal ha sagt: Det kjem ein dag då havet ditt skal gje frå seg alt som det gøymer no. Ditt vesle djupe stygge hav. Der er roti der nede. Slam og mørker. Ta deg i akt. Ein skubbar det frå seg. Arg, som ein blir overfor alt som er påtrengande. Og svarar frank: eg er slett ikkje redd. Ein reknar aldri med skredet, raset som riv all nådig dekning av. Så går raset. Og tek med seg. Ikkje berre det ein visste måtte gå i vasken om det skulle prøvast, men òg alt det som det er sviande skam at blir nækt: Det at folk ser kva som verkeleg har vori der heile tida.

He was gone, in the wind, back to Russia, where he has been living openly. (And from there, he allegedly continued to run criminal enterprises in the United States. In 2013, Tokhtakhounov was indicted for money laundering in connection with an illegal gambling ring that operated out of Trump Tower. Several months after this indictment, Tokhtakhounov was a VIP guest at Donald Trump’s Miss Universe contest in Moscow.) We’ve never had a chance to get him again. In the scheme of things, the evident corruption behind a figure-skating medal may seem trivial. But for me and for a lot of guys on our squad, this was a critical turn of events. One of our worst fears was that the top tier of the vory v zakone would use money to undermine Western institutions in which many millions of Americans have reflexive faith. That fear had now been realized, and we asked ourselves what institutions might be next, and we asked whether any American public official might be susceptible to a two-hundred-million-dollar bribe, and we asked whether democracy itself might become a target.

Tokhtakhounov was indicted and arrested by Italian police on charges of conspiracy to rig the competition. For months the FBI worked with the Italians and with Interpol to get him extradited. Before long, word came to the squad that a Russian oligarch had pledged two hundred million dollars to get Tokhtakhounov out of jail. Next thing we knew, his release was ordered by the Italian Supreme Court. He was gone, in the wind, back to Russia, where he has been living openly. (And from there, he allegedly continued to run criminal enterprises in the United States. In 2013, Tokhtakhounov was indicted for money laundering in connection with an illegal gambling ring that operated out of Trump Tower. Several months after this indictment, Tokhtakhounov was a VIP guest at Donald Trump’s Miss Universe contest in Moscow.) We’ve never had a chance to get him again. In the scheme of things, the evident corruption behind a figure-skating medal may seem trivial. But for me and for a lot of guys on our squad, this was a critical turn of events. One of our worst fears was that the top tier of the vory v zakone would use money to undermine Western institutions in which many millions of Americans have reflexive faith. That fear had now been realized, and we asked ourselves what institutions might be next, and we asked whether any American public official might be susceptible to a two-hundred-million-dollar bribe, and we asked whether democracy itself might become a target. HOW WE WORK Enterprise Theory Muddy Wingtips Most FBI investigations are conducted by the Bureau’s criminal, counterterrorism, or counterintelligence divisions.

Scripture… is not the Church’s sole point of reference. The “supreme rule of her faith” derives from the unity which the spirit has created between Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, and the Magisterium of the Church in a reciprocity which means that none of the three can survive without the others. (55) Likewise,

We are in this world for one goal and one goal only: to achieve Heaven. It is the only measure of success there is. Merit Heaven and your life has been a success, regardless of whatever failures you experienced during your earthly life. Be damned, and your life has been a failure, regardless of what heights you rose to or successes you enjoyed on earth.

And what is key to remember is this one point: Satan no more sees mankind as a collective than does God. Of course there is a corporate aspect to us, a human nature in which we all share and participate, but at day’s end, we are individuals, and we will all be rewarded or damned as individuals. Only after salvation or damnation do we proceed into the larger society of the elect or the society of the damned.

Sometimes people say things they mean at the time when under the influence of their emotions but in their hearts would never be able to do. They mean well, but often it leads to disappointment.

some might say that this attempt was a failure, but I like to think of it as learning another way not to put it up. No sense crying over something that just is. You just got to stick with it and figure out another way to approach. The fact you haven’t yet struck on the right way to do it yet doesn’t say anything about you. It just means you’re on an adventure, learning something new. Now, dry your tears and let’s try again.

Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.” – Benjamin Disraeli

My Lord and Savior Daddy Christ

The vory and regular criminals who had served in the army and were now considered to have broken their code were joined by maybe half a million former soldiers and partisans whose ‘crime’ had been to be captured by the enemy when Stalin expected – demanded – that they fight to the death. For them, ‘liberation’ meant an inglorious transfer from a foreign prison camp to a Soviet one. Over a third of a million Red Army soldiers ended up in the NKVD’s ‘verification and filtration camps’, and while most were eventually freed to civilian life or returned into the military, at least a third of them ended up in the Gulag.15

I drag my toe back and forth until a small trench opens in the dirt before me. She knows as well as I do that I’ve never let anything go in my life. Liam Robertson stole my lunch money in third grade, and I still think about it every time I pass him in the hallway.

I don’t like imagining my enemies complexly. It really ruins the whole “revenge at all costs” thing

My sister, Hannah, says it’s because I’m a Scorpio.

I might feel messy and tangled and wrong most days, but onstage, I'm untouchable.