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For those of us in the opposition movement under dictatorships, part of our job is confronting police and spending time in prison. So, a dissident not only needs to learn how to oppose oppression but also how to face the crackdowns and time in prison.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Face
#Oppression
#Police
#Prison
#Time
I do my best to make every word from my pen a cry from the heart for the souls of the dead.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Best
#Cry
#Dead
#Heart
#Pen
Love as intense as ice, love as remote as blackness.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Blackness
#Ice
#Intense
#Love
#Remote
The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Became
#Ethically
#Involved
#Major
#Wars
The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Free
#Human Rights
#Human
#Rights
#World
I always think that reforms and turning China into a free country is a long and tortuous process. Despite this, in a totalitarian state, the fight for freedom comes from the accumulative efforts of the people; without such efforts, very little will happen.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Fight
#Free
#Freedom
#Long
#Process
If you want to enter hell, don't complain of the dark; you can't blame the world for being unfair if you start on the path of the rebel.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Dark
#Hell
#Path
#Start
#World
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Civilization
#Culture
#Desire
#Flaws
#Me
I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Hope
#Long
#Victim
#Will
#Words
Appreciation has become my destiny in life. Perhaps it's the instinct of a polar bear enjoying hibernation in the vast snows.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Appreciation
#Destiny
#Instinct
#Life
China, as a major nation of the world, as one of five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, and as a member of the U.N. Council on Human Rights, should be contributing to peace for humankind and progress toward human rights.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Peace
#Progress
#United Nations
#World
In my view, Reform and Opening Up began with the abandonment of the 'using class struggle as guiding principle' government policy of the Mao era and, in its place, a commitment to economic development and social harmony.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Government
#Harmony
#Struggle
#View
The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Gift
#God
#Internet
#People
#Truly
I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Civilization
#My Own
#Own
#Same
#Time
My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the temptations to join the world of lies.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Desire
#Join
#Lies
#Me
#World
My dear, with your love I can calmly face my impending trial, having no regrets about the choices I've made and optimistically awaiting tomorrow.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Choices
#Face
#I Can
#Love
#Tomorrow
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Free
#Mother
#Nature
#Speech
#Truth
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.
- Liu Xiaobo
#Death
#Freedom
#Life
#Society
#Wisdom
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