Anna Politkovskaya Quotes

#1. How we react to the tragedy of one small person accurately reflects our attitude towards a whole nationality, and increasing the numbers doesn't change much.

Anna Politkovskaya

#2. People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.

Anna Politkovskaya

#3. This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is to implement unquestioningly whatever political escapades those in power dream up. Cogs have no rights. Not even to dignity in death.

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#4. Do you still think the world is vast? That if there is a conflagration in one place it does not have a bearing on another, and that you can sit it out in peace on your veranda admiring your absurd petunias?

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#5. At least a circus performance does not last long, and the regime availing itself of the services of clownish journalists has the longevity of a mouldering mushroom.

Anna Politkovskaya

#6. What matter is the information, not what you think about it.

Anna Politkovskaya

#7. We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good.

Anna Politkovskaya