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… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
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,… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
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… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we will have… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is a great role model for me. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
I believe in fate. And in the depths of my soul, I am an Orthodox Christian. I think the New Testament is especially important.… — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend. — Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Copy Share Image
