Tolokonnikova Quotes

#1. Like Solzhenitsyn, I believe that in the end, words will break cement. Solzhenitsyn wrote, "So the word is more sincere than concrete? So the word is not a trifle? Then may noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement."

[Nadya Tolokonnikova's closing statement]

Masha Gessen

#2. I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#3. Don't just be everywhere, be everywhere that your clients are, where you matter most.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#4. When I am weak, then I am strong.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#5. You meet not so much to sing as to pray, or, better yet, to pray in and through your song. Gregorian chant is for you a privileged form of prayer. You are drawn to it because you perceive the link between music and the sacred, between beauty and truth.

Jacques Hourlier

#6. She was just being nice. I fucking love nice. Two points to Scout.

Kim Holden

#7. Chinese authorities demonstrated during the climate-related civil war that began in Sudan in 2003 that they would support mass murderers when doing so seemed to serve their investments. In

Timothy Snyder

#8. The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#9. In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#10. I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.

Brett Favre

#11. Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#12. You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it

Albert Einstein

#13. As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#14. Anyone can create and put stuff out there, so then as viewers and listeners, we have access to a lot of different unique view points.

Gia Coppola

#15. Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#16. We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#17. Men should also pay attention to their appearance and occasionally use cosmetics.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#18. We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have real competition.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#19. It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#20. I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#21. We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It's easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#22. The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#23. The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#24. If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's role.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#25. So farwel Hope, and with Hope farwel Fear, Farwel Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good; by thee at least Divided Empire with Heav'ns King I hold By thee, and more then half perhaps will reigne; As Man ere long, and this new World shall know. Thus

John Milton

#26. I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is especially important. What Jesus and his disciples preached and did was a great thing.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#27. When your party is controlled by a billionaire rootless international financier who expresses 'no sense of guilt' for collaborating with the Nazis, you might want to ease up on lecturing the rest of us about the evil rich.

Ann Coulter

#28. I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city, isn't it.

Kit Harington

#29. I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#30. Every woman with a career has to make sacrifices when it comes to her children. It's no different with me, as a political activist, than with businesswomen, of which there are thankfully more and more in Russia. Or a female cabinet minister.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#31. There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#32. I was treated better than others, simply because there was so much public attention. In my case, they did adhere to the eight-hour workday required by law. The other women were often forced to slave away for up to 16 hours a day.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova