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Liu Xiaobo słynne cytaty

„Mam nadzieję, że będę w moim kraju ostatnim z długiej listy uwięzionych pisarzy. Że nikt już nie zostanie uznany za przestępcę za to, co mówi.”

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słowa, które wypowiedział na swoim procesie.
Źródło: Jean-Philippe Beja, Liu Xiaobo więzień nr 1, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 9–10 października 2010.

„Nie chodzi o to, żeby władze nas zrehabilitowały, tylko żeby nigdy nie trzeba już było w Chinach nikogo rehabilitować.”

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o uczestnikach protestu na placu Tian’anmen.
Źródło: Jean-Philippe Beja, Liu Xiaobo więzień nr 1, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 9–10 października 2010.

„Klimat wrogości zatruwa duszę narodu, podżega do brutalnej walki na śmierć i życie, zabija tolerancję i człowieczeństwo, jest przeszkodą na drodze do wolności i demokracji. Dlatego mam nadzieję, że uda mi się (…) przeciwstawić wrogości reżimu jak najlepsze intencje, rozbroić ją miłością.”

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wypowiedziane podczas procesu.
Źródło: Jean-Philippe Beja, Liu Xiaobo więzień nr 1, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 9–10 października 2010.

„Trudno dziś sobie wyobrazić, by klasa społeczna, która tyle władzy zawdzięcza i jest od niej zależna – prywatni przedsiębiorcy i elity kulturalne – zechciała ryzykować swą pozycję z moralnych powodów. Jednak bez spontanicznego zaangażowania elit niemożliwe jest zapoczątkowanie oddolnego proreformatorskiego ruchu społecznego.”

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Źródło: Jean-Philippe Beja, Liu Xiaobo więzień nr 1, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 9–10 października 2010.

„Czerwiec 1989 r. był punktem zwrotnym w moim 50-letnim życiu. Śmierć męczenników otworzyła mi oczy.”

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o zakończonych masakrą protestach na placu Tian’anmen, w których brał udział.
Źródło: Jean-Philippe Beja, Liu Xiaobo więzień nr 1, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 9–10 października 2010.

„Tylko dzięki szerokiej mobilizacji na gruncie etyki ruch demokratyczny 1989 r. stał się społecznym ruchem przemian i zrodził tyle nadziei.”

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Źródło: Jean-Philippe Beja, Liu Xiaobo więzień nr 1, tłum. Sergiusz Kowalski, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 9–10 października 2010.

„Intelektualiści coraz szerzej żądają wolności słowa. (…) Ich opór przeciwko dławieniu jej przez KPCh, a zwłaszcza przeciw ograniczeniom w internecie (…), odniósł pewien sukces. (…) Nie byłoby to możliwe bez presji ze strony ruchu obrony praw człowieka.”

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Źródło: Jean-Philippe Beja, Liu Xiaobo więzień nr 1, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 9–10 października 2010.

„Każdy może stwierdzić, jakie są nasze polityczne realia. Chiny mają prawo, lecz nie są państwem prawa; mają konstytucję, ale nie mają konstytucyjnego rządu. Elita sprawująca władzę utrzymuje się przy niej w sposób autorytarny.”

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słowa, które kosztowały go 11-letni wyrok więzienia za „próbę obalenia władzy”.
Źródło: „Forum”, 11 października 2010.

„Aby trzymać się minimum, jakim jest uczciwość w życiu codziennym, nie trzeba wiele odwagi, szlachetności, sumienia ani mądrości. Postawa taka niekoniecznie wymaga wysokiej ceny osobistej (…), wymaga tylko powstrzymania się od publicznego kłamstwa, od kłamstwa dla przetrwania, kiedy władza stosuje taktykę kija i marchewki.”

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Źródło: Jean-Philippe Beja, Liu Xiaobo więzień nr 1, tłum. Sergiusz Kowalski, „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 9–10 października 2010.

Liu Xiaobo: Cytaty po angielsku

“The worship of violence marks a reversion to barbarism for human civilization. This reversion happens most easily inside autocratic political systems, and the extent of the return to caveman impulses in in direct proportion to the barbarity of the autocracy within which it takes place: the more barbaric the dictatorship, the more devoutly the people will worship violence.”

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"Bellicose and Thuggish: The Roots of Chinese "Patriotism" at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century" (2002)
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems

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

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NPR http://www.npr.org/2012/02/16/146988012/liu-xiaobo-no-enemies-no-hatred-only-courage - "Liu Xiaobo: 'No Enemies, No Hatred,' Only Courage" 16 Feb. 2012 <br class="br">Kontekst: I hope that I will be the last victim in China's 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.

“Without freedom, China will always remain far from civilized ideals.”

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Charter 08
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems
Kontekst: Freedom. Freedom is at the core of universal human values. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom in where to live, and the freedoms to strike, to demonstrate, and to protest, among others, are the forms that freedom takes. Without freedom, China will always remain far from civilized ideals.

“If most people cast their lot with the latter, then evil will prey forever upon humankind, as wolves and tigers prey upon lambs.”

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"On Living with Dignity in China"
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems
Kontekst: Admittedly, righteousness is weak unless it is backed by power, but power devoid of righteousness is evil. If most people cast their lot with the latter, then evil will prey forever upon humankind, as wolves and tigers prey upon lambs.

“In China's communist era, despite all of the rhetoric about internationalism and "liberation of mankind" during the Mao years, the regime, especially in its claims to legitimacy, has consistently stressed nationalism. Nationalism has taken different forms at different stages - an arrogant, bellicose style under Mao; a pragmatic, defensive style under Deng Xiaoping; and a resurgence of the arrogant, bellicose style under Jiang Zemin - but the underlying passions that shape the policies have always been caught up in a vicious cycle between self-abasement and self-aggrandizement.”

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"Bellicose and Thuggish: The Roots of Chinese "Patriotism" at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century" (2002)
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems

“"Ultra-nationalism" stands naked as nothing but a euphemism for the worship of violence in service of autocratic goals - be they the terrorism and holy war of Islamic fundamentalists or the refusal of dictatorial systems to accept political democracy.”

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"Bellicose and Thuggish: The Roots of Chinese "Patriotism" at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century" (2002)
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems

“In its actual power today, the Chinese regime is still far behind the U. S., and there is no chance of its becoming a world hegemon any time soon.”

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"Bellicose and Thuggish: The Roots of Chinese "Patriotism" at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century"
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems

“Elegy to Lin Zhao, Lone Voice of Chinese Freedom”

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2004
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems

“Power and money reign supreme in our nation today. Universities count for nothing, and scholarship and ideas count for even less. Love, truth, and sacrifice are meaningless concepts, while betrayal and collective amnesia are taken as a matter of course.”

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No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems

“The nostalgia for Mao Zedong that we see in China today is in part a longing of the poor and downtrodden - the losers in the economic boom - for the egalitarianism an job security of the Mao era. But it is more than that. For the "patriots" in today's rabid nationalism, it is nostalgia for a time when China dared to say "no" to both of the world's superpowers, the Us. S. and the Soviet Union.”

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"Bellicose and Thuggish: The Roots of Chinese "Patriotism" at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century" (2002)
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems

“Other than pleasure-seeking and consumerism, it seems that the only fruit of our social development is a cancerous overgrowth of "the rational economic man": maximize personal gain, and that's all.”

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The Spiritual Landscape of the Urban Young in Post-Totalitarian China" (2004)
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems

“In a totalitarian state, the purpose of politics is power and power alone. The "nation" and its peoples are mentioned only to give an air of legitimacy to the application of power. The people accept this devalued existence, asking only to live from day to day.”

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"On Living with Dignity in China"
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems

“We must note that speaking truth to power has rewards as well as costs. People who dare to speak out about major public events may not receive tangible benefits, but they receive the very considerable rewards of high moral reputation among fellow Chinese as well as in the international community.”

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"Using Truths to Undermine a System Built of Lies"
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems

“When a people like ours, who struggle with feelings of inferiority, have to face the facts of inadequate national strength, or of less than full respect from others, one way we try to feel better is to grab onto any piece of historical material that can make us proud.”

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"Bellicose and Thuggish: The Roots of Chinese "Patriotism" at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century" (2002)
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems

“In the conflict between survival of the flesh and dignity of the spirit, if we cower to preserve ourselves, we become mere zombies, despite our trappings of prosperity. If we stand up for our dignity, we live nobly, no matter how much we may risk or suffer.”

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"On Living with Dignity in China"
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems

“China's post-totalitarian era has two distinguishing characteristics. First, the rulers still want desperately to hold on to their dictatorial system in the midst of a crisis of legitimacy. Second, society no longer approves of such a system of dictatorship. A spontaneously growing civil society is gradually coming into being, and, although it does not yet have the strength to change the existing system, the increasing pluralism of its economy and its values, like water dripping on stone, is gradually eroding our rigid political monism.”

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The Spiritual Landscape of the Urban Young in Post-Totalitarian China" (2004)
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems

“My view as a Chinese is that Obama's elevation to the position of 44th president of the United States underscores teh greatness of the American system.”

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"Obama's Election, The Republican Factor, and a Proposal for China" (2008)
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems