Quotes by Liu Xiaobo

“I dont think the Chinese government will mention his passing. Theyd rather he was forgotten.”

“I must tell you that my indignation at and contempt for you and your company are not a bit less than my indignation at and contempt for the Communist regime.”

“Bing Dian has been in the Chinese Communist Partys sights ever since the publication of that open letter.”

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

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.

Hatred is corrosive of a persons wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nations spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a societys tolerance and humanity, and block a nations progress to freedom and democracy.