Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Quotes

• The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Inexplicable, Please

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• We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Crush, Strong, People

  "Here's What Russian Punk Band Pussy Riot Said At The Conclusion Of Their Controversial Blasphemy Trial". Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's closing speech at the Pussy Riot trial in Russia, www.businessinsider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• When I am weak, then I am strong.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Strong, I Am Strong, Weak

  "Here's What Russian Punk Band Pussy Riot Said At The Conclusion Of Their Controversial Blasphemy Trial". Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's closing speech at the Pussy Riot trial in Russia, www.businessinsider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  People, Essentials, Noble

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• If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's role.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Sex, Roles, Classic

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Personality, Support, Males

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Serenity, Inner Peace, Speak

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Listen to us rather than to Arkady Mamontov talking about us. Don't twist and distort everything we say. Let us enter into dialogue and contact with the country, which is ours too, not just Putin's and the Patriarch's. Like Solzhenitsyn, I believe that in the end, words will crush concrete. Solzhenitsyn wrote, "the word is more sincere than concrete, so words are not trifles. Once noble people mobilize, their words will crush concrete."

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Crush, Country, Believe

  "Here's What Russian Punk Band Pussy Riot Said At The Conclusion Of Their Controversial Blasphemy Trial". Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's closing speech at the Pussy Riot trial in Russia, www.businessinsider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is especially important. What Jesus and his disciples preached and did was a great thing.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have real competition.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Real, Russia, Political

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• Men should also pay attention to their appearance and occasionally use cosmetics.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Men, Attention, Use

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Running, Russia, Way

  "Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina". Interview with Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. April 10, 2014.

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• I was treated better than others, simply because there was so much public attention. In my case, they did adhere to the eight-hour workday required by law. The other women were often forced to slave away for up to 16 hours a day.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Eight, Law, Attention

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is a great role model for me.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Role Models, Roles, Philosopher

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Russia, Rights, Space

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• Every woman with a career has to make sacrifices when it comes to her children. It's no different with me, as a political activist, than with businesswomen, of which there are thankfully more and more in Russia. Or a female cabinet minister.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Children, Sacrifice, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Shadow, Prisoner, Terrified

  "Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova: Why I have gone on hunger strike" by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2013.

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