Political Quotes by Masha Gessen

9 Political quotes by Masha Gessen

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Gessen’s keen observations on authoritarianism and civil liberties are packed into nine concise quotes, providing a quick taste of her critical perspective.

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Pussy Riot have certainly changed some people's assumptions about the role of political art and the relationship between the intelligentsia and the…

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A political conversation is a conversation in which people with different views come to agreements about how they're going to inhabit this…

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I kept thinking, I'm not going to do political journalism, because there's no way to keep my principles and be a political…

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For example, if you are a blogger who wrote something about a local official and you're going to prison for that, you're…

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I received the Media for Liberty Award from Swedish PEN, and the prize was awarded by the Swedish minister of culture, who…

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There are several dozen political prisoners in Russia. When I cite that number people are often very surprised. They often think there…

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You can't expect people who didn't exist as a community at all until about twenty years ago to have formed a political…

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With Pussy Riot - this was a prank! It was a brilliant, artistically gifted prank. But they didn't expect to go to…

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The reason Vladimir Putin released Pussy Riot, the Greenpeace activists who were kidnapped in international waters and kept in prison for two…

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There's this American pretense, which is the pretense of the journalist with the view from nowhere - which has somehow morphed into the journalist…

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Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

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Pussy Riot have certainly changed some people's assumptions about the role of political art and the relationship between the intelligentsia and the church. That's…

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Trump, like Putin, has a demonstrably thin skin and short temper when it comes to being criticized by journalists.

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You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.

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Donald Trump creates word salads. And that is awful to language, because we try to parse out what he's saying and try to find…

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It is the first time since 1993 that Russians have come out into the streets without an explicit permission from the government to do…

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I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him.

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In the 1990s, there was a lot of reform, and there was a lot of forward movement on a lot of fronts in Russia.…

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Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies.

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I think that Putin's strategy has been throwing a lot of money, fairly haphazardly, at a lot of projects aimed at disrupting Western relations…

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Both Trump and Putin use language primarily to communicate not facts or opinions but power: it's not what the words mean that matters but…

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I worked both as a Russian journalist and an American journalist and ran a bunch of magazines in Moscow over the course of about…

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I have no doubt that there are Russian efforts to disturb the fabric of American democracy, but they're disruption efforts. They're troublemaking efforts. They're…

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For years I was the only publicly out gay person who was not a full-time gay activist: my position as a quasi-foreigner gave me…

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