Victoria

“There’s nothing worse than the virus of politics. Especially when it infects someone without the antibodies to combat it.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, The Wizard of the Kremlin

“The first rule of power is to forge ahead with your mistakes, never to show the slightest crack in the wall of authority.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, The Wizard of the Kremlin

“We didn’t describe the Soviet Union. It was about our own smooth, seamless, algorithm-driven world, the global matrix presently under construction, and the total inadequacy of our primitive brains to deal with it. Zamyatin was an oracle. He was not just speaking to Stalin, he was targeting all the dictators waiting in the wings, the oligarchs of Silicon Valley as well as the mandarins of China’s single political party.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, The Wizard of the Kremlin

“—But politics is not a game, he said. —Not for amateurs, it’s not a game. But for professionals, believe me, it’s the only game worth playing.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, The Wizard of the Kremlin