Chinese - Critic | December 28, 1955 - July 13, 2017
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
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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It took Hong Kong 100 years to become what it is.
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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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The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.
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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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Love as intense as ice, love as remote as blackness.
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