Alexei Navalny Quotes

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

The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through gestures, even objects. They are more difficult to interpret, and take time before they arouse suspicion.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

People are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Every censorship, however good its intent, degenerates inevitably into tyranny.

I was imprisoned for talking.

Any attempt at demonstrating (rallies) will immediately result in adequate and strict reaction by the armed forces.

People like to quiet the speech of others.

The most repressive societies have always restricted speech the most — and when people are finally able to speak, they often call for change.

Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.

As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.

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

I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for it; and is not free speech here as elsewhere clamped down on in ratio of its freedom and danger?

None but the dead have free speech.

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

There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else's freedom to express themselves.

Life is full of censorship. I cant spit in your eye.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.