“My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the tem...” — Liu Xiaobo Quote

My searing desire to atone for having survived helps me resist the temptations to join the world of lies.

My dear, with your love I can calmly face my impending trial, having no regrets about the choices I've made and optimistically awaiting tomorrow.

For those of us in the opposition movement under dictatorships, part of our job is confronting police and spending time in prison. So, a dissident not only needs to learn how to oppose oppression but also how to face the crackdowns and time in prison.

My praise is perhaps an unforgivable poison.

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.

For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.

Why should you have to atone for making big movies?

As a Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union, I felt it was ridiculous to expect me to atone for the sins of slavery and segregation, to say nothing of the household drudgery and workplace discrimination suffered by women.

How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.