Rozhkova Nadezhda Quotes

When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been able to pass on the knowledge that this never happens and that from the slaughterhouse there is no way back to the herd. But in human society there is a continuous exchange of experience. I have never heard of a man who broke away and fled while being led to his execution. It is even thought to be a special form of courage if a man about to be executed refuses to be blindfolded and dies with his eyes open. But I would rather have the bull with his blind rage, the stubborn beast who doesn't weigh his chances of survival with the prudent dull-wittedness of man, and doesn't know the despicable feeling of despair. ~ Nadezhda Mandelstam

As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry. ~ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless. ~ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

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

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

I will not remain silent, resigned to watch as my fellow prisoners collapse under the strain of slavery-like conditions. ~ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women. ~ Nadezhda Krupskaya

The Olympics create a space for the complete destruction of human rights in Russia. ~ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

I gained an inner peace, the serenity of a prisoner, so to speak. ~ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

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

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 colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable. ~ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend. ~ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

On the bottom shelf M. kept the books from his childhood days: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, the Iliad - they are described in The Noise of Time and happened to have been saved by M.'s father. Most of them later perished in Kalinin when I was fleeing from the Germans. The way we have scurried to and fro in the twentieth century, trapped between Hitler and Stalin! ~ Nadezhda Mandelstam

I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity. ~ Nadezhda Mandelstam

Pussy Riot is a mask: a symplifying, modernizing mask. Prison, confinement, these are also masks, different masks, ones that help people of our generation to shake off cynicism and irony. When you put on a mask, you leave your own time, you abandon the world in which any sincerity will be mocked, you move into the world of cartoon heroes, where Sailor Moon and Spiderman, those consummate modern role models, can be found. (...) The masks that members of Pussy Riot wear hold, if any, a therapeutic function: yes, we belong to a generation raised on irony, but we also put on masks to reduce that impotent irony. We go out in the streets and speak plainly, without varnish, about the things that matter most. ~ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

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

The words we spoke and our entire punk performance aimed to express our disapproval of a specific political event: the patriarchs' support of Vladimir Putin, who has taken an authoritarian and anti-feminist course. ~ Nadezhda Tolokonnikova