48 Quotes by Liu Xiaobo

So let us recognise our shame and guilt; let us ache with self-reflection; let us eradicate the repetition of suffering and resist anger; let us learn to concretely tend to the suffering of an individual, of our common citizens, with equality; let us learn to live life with honour and dignity and a wealth of humanity.

The ease with which moneyforgives bayonets and liesto justify the massacre with reasoned arguments

In the face of a nation that shamelessly assaults the very marrow of our bones, memory is but a pale gray field.

Life is pricelesseven to an ant

If you want to go to hell, don't complain of the dark'.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth. To strangle freedom of speech is to trample on human rights, stifle humanity, and suppress truth.

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.

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

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.