Liu Xiaobo Quotes

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

The glorious spectacle of eighteen millions of people, struggling to burst their chains and be free.

Freedom—When?

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

In my lifetime, I have seen how greater liberty, greater justice, and greater respect ultimately does prevail, but it prevails only when people are willing to fight for it and willing to lose for it.

The struggle for freedom and human rights is universal and Canada used to be a leader.

When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.