Patriot Alexei Navalny Quotes

We must do what they fear--tell the truth, spread the truth. This is the most power weapon against this regime of liars, thieves, and hypocrites. Everyone has this weapon. So make use of it.

The hero of one of my favite books, Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, says, "Yes, the only suitable place for an honest man in Russia at the present time is prison.

When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists.

We must do what they fear -- tell the truth, spread the truth. This is the most powerful weapon against this regime of liars, thieves and hypocrites. Everyone has this weapon. So make use of it.

A serious political leader cannot simply decide to turn his back on a huge number of his fellow citizens because he personally dislikes their views.

All schooboys had been to the stores and had noticed the long queues, and knew that the most used word in the Soviet lexicon was "shortage.

What are AJkraine's borders with Russia? The same as Russia's with Ukraine, which we internationally recognized and defined in 1991. There's nothing to discuss here. Almost all borders in the world are more or less accidental and cause someone discontent. But in the twenty-first century, we can't start ward just to redraw them. Otherwise, the world will sink into chaos.

When corruption is the very foundation of a regime, those who battle it are extremists

If you have a criminal conviction, you are barred from running for office.

The politics of an authoritarian country are structured in a very primitive way: you are either for the regime or against it. All other political options have been completely obliterated.

We must do what they fear—tell the truth, spread the truth. This is the most powerful weapon against this regime of liars, thieves, and hypocrites. Everyone has this weapon. So make use of it.

Summoning a demon would be a violation of the prison regulations

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Life works in such a way that social progress and a better future can only be achieved if a certain number of people are willing to pay the price for their right to have their own beliefs. The more of them there are, the less everyone has to pay. And the day will come when speaking the truth and advocating for justice will be commonplace and not dangerous in Russia.

In October 1987 the national channel began airing Vzglyad (Viewpoint), which came to mean everything to me. I don’t think there has been anything else in my life that so greatly influenced

Needless to say, anybondy traveling abroad - a boon wholly beyond the reach of 99.9 percent of Soviet citizens - was under a moral obligation to acquire foreign-manufactured gifts for everyone.

People who, like me back then, turned a blind eye to the lawlessness, the lies, and the hypocrisy and saw it all as a case of the ends justifying the means and as necessary backing for a particular team.

Because of Putin, hundreds now, and in the future tens of thousands, of Ukrainians and Russian citizens will die. Yes, he will stop Ukraine from developing, he will drag it into the swamp, but Russia too will pay a high price.

And there we were, breaking lances and talking ourselves hoarse about reforms when there was nothing there. Zilch. Yeltsin’s entourage were a bunch of crooks, some of whom called themselves patriotic statesmen while a similar bunch called themselves reformers. The reformers did more thieving but looked more presentable.

In every period, the essence of politics has been that a tin-pot tsar who wants to arrogate to himself the right to personal, unaccountable power needs to intimidate the honest people who are not afraid of him. And they, in turn, need to convince everyone around them that they should not be afraid, that there are, by an order of magnitude, more honest

By doing this, Putin avoided violating the constitution, which prohibited his serving a third consecutive term, but at the same time he didn’t give up power.

Instead, as I have since seen on a less dramatic scale many times, the first official reaction is invariably to lie. There is no practical benefit to the officials doing so; it is simply a rule: In an awkward situation, lie. Play down the damage, deny everything, bluff. It can all be sorted out later, but right now, at the moment of crisis, officials have no option but to lie, because the imagined idiot population is not yet ready for the truth.

I can't see why feminists don't demand that The Taming of the Shrew be cancelled and expelled from libraries. It's diabolical, even for those times.

I’d like to wake up not in this kennel, but to breakfast with my family, kisses on the cheek from my children, unwrapping gifts and saying “wow, this is exactly what I was hoping for.” But life is constructed such that progress and a better future are achievable only if a certain number of people are prepared to pay for their right to hold beliefs. The more of those people there are, the less each will pay. The day will surely come when speaking the truth and standing up for justice will be something ordinary in Russia and completely free from danger. Until that day comes, I see my situation not as a heavy burden or a yoke, but simply as the work I need to do.

So there I was now, sitting on a bunk in a prison cell. The prison regulations were written on the surrounding walls, only they were not the usual sorts of rules but words from the songs of Krovostok, a famous Russian rap group. The guards were ordering me to read out the rules, that is, the lyrics, again and again, a thousand times. It was torture, and in the dream I was irate. Much later, after I had recovered my wits, I mentioned this in an interview, and the guys from Krovostok sent me a response on Twitter: ‘Lyosh, sorry for the bad trip.

I knew from the outset that I would be imprisoned for life — either the rest of my life or until the end of the life of this regime,” Navalny wrote in his diary in March 2022. “I will spend the rest of my life in prison and die here.