Quotes by Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo

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.

Party

People

Progress

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.

Party

Political

President

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.

Freedom

Mother

Truth

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

Expression

Mother

Rights

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.

Block

Struggle

Wisdom

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.

Leader

Mean

Party

I have no enemies and no hatred.

Enemy

Hatred

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.

Humanity

Natural

West

I hope that I will be the last victim in China’s long record of treating words as crimes.

Lasts

Long

Records

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.

Doorways

Frowning

Heroic

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Block

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Eye

Freedom

Frowning

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Heroic

Humanity

Internet

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Lasts

Leader

Life Is

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Majors

Mean

Mother

Natural

Nice

Order

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People

Political

President

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Quotes by Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo

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.

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.

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.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of 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.

I have no enemies and no hatred.

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.

I hope that I will be the last victim in China’s long record of treating words as crimes.

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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