Konstantin Kisin Quotes (1982-)

“Free speech is not some right-wing reframing of whatever; it is the foundation of Western civilization.”

“Rather than us exporting liberal democracy to these countries instead we're importing Chinese-style authoritarianism.”

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

“The students had every right to set their own rules, but I had the right to say their rules were stupid and make fun of them.”

“Here’s an idea: why don’t we all stop telling other people how they should refer to themselves and mind our own damn business?”

“Francis Foster: Everybody knows that Joe Biden isn't in charge. He simply can't be.
Konstantin Kisin: He could be, but that's worse.”

“George Carlin, probably the world’s greatest-ever comedian, once said that the comedian’s job is to find the line and then cross it.”

“[About the importance of saying what you think]: We come from generations of people who were killed for their beliefs. Well, I'm not going to dishonor them.”

“The radical left is the home of the unhappy—and how best to create more miserable people than to break down the roots that give us security, stability and fulfilment?”

“During the whole Ngozi Fulani affair, it was covered like it was a terrorist attack when you sort of think there's probably much bigger core issues affecting way more people.”

“When you have some kid, who works for Twitter in the Philippines, censoring a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, speaking about his area of expertise, I think we've lost the plot.”

“This whole idea that the only reason people keep nattering on about free speech is that they want to use racist language and promote bigotry—that’s ignorant.”

“Modern life has become Orwellian and—in many ways—we’re all 1984’s Winston Smith now.”

“I think, it doesn't apply to everybody, caveat, for most women the greatest gift their partner can give them is the opportunity, if they want to be at home with the children, to do that.”

“This chapter is a plea from the heart to journalists—please stop fucking with the media. It is not yours to co-opt or use to spread propaganda. You are merely stewards of the industry.”

“The message I was given was clear: there is only one acceptable way of telling jokes and, if you don’t conform to it, then you should expect your career to die.
It was all very, very Soviet.”

“One of the things people don't say enough about free speech is "Yes, it causes harm but the harm is worth it." And we don't make that argument because it's too honest and complicated and unpleasant.”

“The only way to deal with the problem of racism is to treat people on the content of their character and nothing else, and the fact that woke culture seeks to overturn that is a new form of racism that we must all oppose.”

“Many people woke up on October 7 sympathetic to parts of woke ideology and went to bed that evening questioning how they had signed on to a worldview that had nothing to say about the mass rape and murder of innocent people by terrorists.”

“If there is one thing my Soviet childhood taught me, it’s that subscribing to someone else’s ideology will always inevitably mean having to suspend your own judgment about right and wrong to appease your tribe. I refuse to do so.”

“This is why so few Russians are rarely, if ever, progressive liberals. They are too busy dealing with the harsh realities of life, such as having to pay the rent or feed their children on a shoestring budget, to partake in self-righteousness and identity politics.”

“My point is that the overwhelming majority of the things that are now described as ‘racism’, ‘xenophobia’ and ‘bigotry’ are simply a product of the fact that we now see everything through the prism of race. I was lucky to be denied the opportunity to do so.”

“The reality of life under the USSR is not something most people can accurately comprehend now, because it happened before most millennials were born and thus preceded the advent of social media, which means to most of my peers it might as well never have happened at all.”