Liu Xiaobo Quotes

#1. Those who flee freedom live on
but their souls die in fear
Those who thirst for freedom die
but their souls live on in resistance

Xiaobo Liu

#2. 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.

Liu Xiaobo

#3. Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work.

Delta Burke

#4. Sometimes something that you've been asking for
It's just something that you could not see before.
For it was something that made you belong,
And that was there the whole time all along.

Ana Claudia Antunes

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

Liu Xiaobo

#6. I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#7. Life is priceless
even to an ant

Xiaobo Liu

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

Xiaobo Liu

#9. I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

Mark Twain

#10. I believe natural beauty has a necessary place in the spiritual development of any individual or any society. I believe that whenever we substitute something man-made and artificial for a natural feature of the earth, we have retarded some part of man's spiritual growth.

Rachel Carson

#11. The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible.

Liu Xiaobo

#12. The free world led by the U.S. fought almost all regimes that trampled on human rights.

Liu Xiaobo

#13. If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#14. The soul is a circle

Chuck Klosterman

#15. Before the eyes shut
this knife shines snow-
bright once more through the inner organs
as using a nuclear bomb to light a cigar
sends lung cancer across the earth
to parting lovers

Xiaobo Liu

#16. 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.

Liu Xiaobo

#17. I, too, eat steamed human-blood buns.

Xiaobo Liu

#18. Humor heals the heckler.

Gerald C. Meyers

#19. The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people.

Liu Xiaobo

#20. 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.

Liu Xiaobo

#21. I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

Sam Neill

#22. I have no enemies and no hatred

Liu Xiaobo

#23. Music moves the body, soul and spirit to the bliss.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

Liu Xiaobo

#25. In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

Liu Xiaobo

#26. The man who has done his level best ... is a success, even though the world write him down a failure.

B.C. Forbes

#27. The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.

Bill Copeland

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

Liu Xiaobo

#29. 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

#30. I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players.

Charles Haley

#31. The sky was wide and inviting, and the grass was cool and sweetly refreshing under my bare feet as I walked across the undulating field towards the river. It was a short walk, only a mile or so, but I did not hurry it, letting my soul soak up the glorious sensation of freedom and lightness.

Susanna Kearsley