Quotes by Liu Xiaobo - Page 1

I have no enemies and no hatred.
Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic
Enemy
Hatred
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Life is priceless even to an ant.
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Ants
Life Is
Priceless
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Now the entire world has its eyes on China.
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Eye
World
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My praise is perhaps an unforgivable poison.
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Poison
Praise
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It took Hong Kong 100 years to become what it is.
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Hong Kong
Took
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Love as intense as ice, love as remote as blackness.
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Blackness
Ice
Intense
Remote
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The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.
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Chinese
Internet
People
God Gift People
Chinese People
Truly
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The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.
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War
Involved
Majors
Wars
Ethically
Major
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Ultimately, change will happen when problems persist and enough people are concerned.
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Concerned
Persist
Change People Will
Enough People
Happen
Problems
Ultimately
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The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.
Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic
Free World
Human Rights
Regimes
Rights
World
Almost All
Fought
Led
Trampled
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I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes.
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Lasts
Long
Records
Victim
Crimes
Treating
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I do my best to make every word from my pen a cry from the heart for the souls of the dead.
Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic
Pen
Souls
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My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the temptations to join the world of lies.
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Desire
Survived
Atone
Helps
Join
Lies
Temptations
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Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.
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Expression
Mother
Rights
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Appreciation has become my destiny in life. Perhaps it's the instinct of a polar bear enjoying hibernation in the vast snows.
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Appreciation
Instinct
Bear
Vast
Enjoying
Polar
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I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, exaggerating my own merits.
Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic
Civilization
Exaggerating
Western
Western Civilization
Time Own My Own
Time My Own Own
Merits
Same Time
Toward
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I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.
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Destination
Humanity
Natural
Salvation
Ultimate
West
Viewed
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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 / Literary Critic
Blame
Dark
Hell
Path
Rebel
Unfair
Complain
Enter
Start
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I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.
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Doorways
Frowning
Heroic
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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.
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Dear
No Regrets
Awaiting
Calmly
Impending
Regrets
Trial
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In order to exercise the right to freedom of speech conferred by the Constitution, one should fulfill the social responsibility of a Chinese citizen.
Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic
Chinese
Exercise
Freedom Of Speech
Responsibility
Social Responsibility
Citizen
Conferred
Fulfill
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If there has been any progress in the Chinese society and politics over the last 20 years, it is all because the citizens have been pushing for change.
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Pushing
Change Politics Society
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From B.A. to M.A. and on to Ph.D., my academic career was all smooth sailing. Upon receiving my degrees, I stayed on to teach at Beijing Normal University.
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Academic
Beijing
Degrees
Receiving
Sailing
Smooth
Stayed
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In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.
Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic
China
Criminals
Elements
Officials
Underworld
Criminal
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There is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will, in the end, become a nation ruled by law, where human rights reign supreme.
Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic
China
Force
Human Rights
Law
Reign
Rights
Supreme
Nation
In The End
Quest
Ruled
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China after Olympics will progress very slowly. But the demands for freedom - on the part of ordinary people but also party members - won't be as easy to contain.
Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic
Party
People
Progress
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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 / Literary Critic
China
Civilization
Desire
Flaws
Nationalistic
Order
Reform
West
Western Civilization
Arises
Idealize
Led
Overlook
Tendency
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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.
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Freedom
Truth
Expression
Free Expression
Free Speech
Human Nature
Insult
Mother
Rights
Speech
Free
Base
Human
Root
Stifle
Suppress
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I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies.
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Arrested
Hatred
Judged
Police
Enemies
Indicted
Prosecutors
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Our political system continues to produce human rights disasters and social crises, thereby not only constricting China's own development but also limiting the progress of all of human civilization.
Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic
China
Civilization
Development
Human Civilization
Produce
Rights
Social
Crises
Disasters
Limiting
Political System
System
Thereby
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For the party, the Beijing Games are the biggest political happening of 2008. Everything revolves around them. This will be a huge celebration for the President Hu Jintao and the Premier Wen Jiabao.
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Party
Political
President
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If the Olympics fail, human rights will suffer. The government would stop paying any attention to the rest of the world. I personally think: we want the Games and we want human rights to be respected.
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Attention
Suffering
Thinking
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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.
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Abandonment
Class
Class Struggle
Commitment
Development
Economic
Economic Development
Harmony
Mao
Opening
Policy
Struggle
Began
Guiding
Principle
View
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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.
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Contributing
Council
Human Rights
Humankind
Permanent
Security Council
United Nations
Member
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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.
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Confronting
Oppression
Spending Time
Dictatorships
Oppose
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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.
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Death
Wisdom
Freedom
Society
Block
Brutal
Conscience
Democracy
Enmity
Hatred
Humanity
Life And Death
Mentality
Poison
Progress
Spirit
Struggle
Tolerance
Person
Nation
Corrosive
Destroy
Struggles
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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 / Literary Critic
China
Country
Despite
Free Country
Long
Process
Totalitarian State
Free
Turning
Fight
Efforts
Happen
Reforms
Tortuous
Totalitarian
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The Party leader at the time, Jiang Zemin, wanted to show the world China's new status. And in winning the bid, the leaders could show the people how strong the government was. Plus, the leadership wanted to use the Olympics to strengthen nationalist sentiment.
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Party
Strong
Winning
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In the course of my life, for more than half a century, June 1989 was the major turning point. Up to that point, I was a member of the first class to enter university when college entrance examinations were reinstated following the Cultural Revolution (Class of '77).
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First Class
Following
June
Revolution
Life My Life More
Turning
Cultural
Enter
Entrance
Examinations
Member
Turning Point
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I've heard the government say many nice things. But it did make some gestures, like writing human rights protection into the constitution - that surprised me. And it improved the conditions for foreign journalists: It used to be impossible for you to meet with me personally. But there still hasn't been a real improvement in the human rights situation.
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Nice
Real
Writing
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I can't imagine here would be a Chinese Gorbachev. But the party will gradually open up. For instance, it has already set a time limit for political reforms in Hong Kong. And in four years time, there won't be a strongman to name the General Secretary at the party congress. That means that the various factions will have to develop better rules for naming their leader. But there won't be a timeline for political reform.
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Leader
Mean
Party
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