Ksenia Sobchak Quotes

Gandhi protested against restrictive policies. So did 'Guru.'

You know in democracy you can protest peacefully and I'm sure you know it will have at least some kind of impact. You need to raise your voice. If you can't do much, you know, but at least raise you voice. Raising your voice is something you need to do.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

I often traveled to Nicaragua to speak against repressive policies by the Sandinista government.

You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.

I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.

Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.

Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: 'Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! We are together!' They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.

I've spent a lot of time in America since Sept. 11, 2001. Being here, I was noticing that the people, who in the '60s used to voice their opinions about their rights, are much different today. People are afraid to voice opposition to the government in a mass way.

The protest is part of the American way of life.

Did Lincoln hate America when he voted against the Mexican War? Did Mark Twain hate America when he made speeches against the Spanish American War? If you love your country you will find ways to speak out …

Surely one can be a dissident without intending to run for a higher public office.

What I do is good for Russian opposition. What I do is I speak freely on the things and items that were never discussed loudly with Russian public for years.