Checkmate Quote by Aung San Suu Kyi

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

— Isaac Asimov

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

— Nigel Short

The draw by stalemate looks like a spot of discontinuity in the otherwise harmonious universe of values. To save a game by letting yourself…

— Mihail Marin

Diplomacy is a game of chess in which the nations are checkmated.

— Karl Kraus

Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

“Democratic transitions do not succeed suddenly, and, conversely, they do not fail in one moment either. There are, in retrospect, important inflection points that…

— Condoleezza Rice

“It'll be like a game of chess. We can let the game unfold as it did before, but if we want to avoid checkmate,…

— Darren Shan

One of the things that happens that's challenging within the democratic process is that people say, 'Look at this failure, so we should totally…

— Reid Hoffman

We believe in the democratic process.

— Lindsay Hoyle

We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves,…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The Kremlin is constantly changing the rules of the game to suit its purposes. We are not playing chess, we're playing roulette.

— Garry Kasparov

“This is not checkers; this is motherfuckin’ chess. Technology businesses tend to be extremely complex. The underlying technology moves, the competition moves, the market…

— Ben Horowitz