Alexandra Elbakyan Quotes

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

I perceive Sci-Hub as a practical side of my research.

I like their slogan 'making uncommon knowledge common' very much, but as far as I can tell Elsevier has not mastered this job well. Sci-Hub is helping them to fulfill their mission.

Do you know what social justice is? Do you know what social reform is? I didn't either, but reform and social justice are what I intend to do.

The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

We didn't come here to become Washington, we came here to change Washington.

I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.

Social change comes through people.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

A crank is a little thing that makes revolutions.

I'll say this for reformers—they're mighty patient.

Never Tire of Protesting

There is a hundred times more enthusiasm for this revolution in any café in Paris than there is in all the United States together.

There is a revolution in Germany, and we must ask ourselves, "Is there a revolution in the university?" No. The fighting is still in the skirmishing stage.

These points of ours are going to rival Luther’s placard on the doors of Wittenberg!.

If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.

Sci-Hub arose as a tool to be used in a Russian-speaking online research community.

I'm an activist.

I don't consider myself part of the Resistance because that's against something, and you have to be for something.

A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.

Sci-Hub always intended to be legal, and advocated for the copyright law to be repealed or changed, so that it will not prohibit the development of science.

I try to surround myself with the people who genuinely believe in changing things, that are angry about it and want to make changes and want to make a change and are willing.