“My father believed that the higher you put your goal, the higher you r...” — Judit Polgar Quote

My father believed that the higher you put your goal, the higher you reach. That was the main reason me and my sisters were playing mostly against male competitors.

My father and mother are exceptional pedagogues who can motivate and tell it from all different angles. Later, chess for me became a sport, an art, a science, everything together. I was very focused on chess, and happy with that world.

And maybe some people do it too much, are too selfish and concentrated on chess. But I think that in all professions you can find a lot of people like that.

I had a gold medal in olympics at 12. At 14 or 15 I had my career set before me. Because I started so early, I had this daily training. It developed a focus. It became so natural that it was like a native language for me to play chess. That's why I didn't feel pressure.

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.