Deng Xiaoping Quotes

Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.

It is a crime now in my country to talk about the government's crimes.

Whenever there is injustice, there is tension. But in China it is very hard to release your anger unless you burn yourself or you jump from a bridge. In a society where there is no freedom of the press, it is difficult for victims to be noticed.

China's Communist Party is wary of independent-minded movements.

Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.'

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

Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more high-stakes shadow-boxing in the netherworld of the world's most elaborate system of censorship.

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.

I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either.

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions.

There are no longer opponents of Putin's policy, and if there are, they are mentally ill and should be sent to prophylactic health examination.

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

Even if the country is run by a Mussolini, free speech will find its way.

My ideas are threatening to the government.

Xi has made plain that he will no longer tolerate hearing the words 'human rights' spoken out loud in the same sentence with the word 'China.'

When a government is in fear of dissent from its own citizens, and when its reaction is to shut out that dissent, we should all worry.

There's no doubt that the Chinese government is waging a full-fledged crackdown on Demosisto.

The very act of protest is dangerous in Venezuela.

China may brutalize Buddhists in Tibet and Muslims in Xinjiang while denying basic rights to the rest of its 1.3 billion citizens, but 'woke' activists pushing intersectionality keep mum on all that.

We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

There are still people that have been held for human rights that shouldn't be held for just speaking their mind.

Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. We have built up the most gigantic police apparatus, with informers made a national institution, and the most refined scientific system of political and mental torture. We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can.

When people try to stop free speech, stop people from talking, it creates pressure in the system that might cause people to act out.