43+ Konstantin Kisin Quotes that are Thought-Provoking and Witty

Konstantin Kisin is a renowned British-Russian comedian, podcaster, and social commentator. He gained fame for his sharp wit and incisive commentary on socio-political issues. His specialty lies in using humor as a tool to shed light on sensitive topics, making them more accessible and understandable for the public. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Konstantin Kisin on constitution, language, love.

Top 10 Konstantin Kisin Quotes

1. The media... is not yours to co-opt or use to spread propaganda. You are merely stewards of the industry.
2. You've got to be careful with opinion polls in totalitarian regimes.
3. Too many people confuse 'I don't want that banned' with 'I approve of that'. A lot of the time the 'confusion' is deliberate.
4. 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.
5. I’ve made quite a lot of progress in my career by speaking logic in the face of idiots.
6. Rather than us exporting liberal democracy to these countries instead we're importing Chinese style authoritarianism.
7. Artificial intelligence will change more about our society than any other social issue, mark my words.
8. Too many people appear to have forgotten that just because something is happening to someone you dislike that doesn't mean it's right.
9. We need to get back to Martin Luther King’s dream, where people are treated on the content of their character, not their skin colour and not on their political viewpoints.
10. 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.

Konstantin Kisin Short Quotes

• Being anti-woke isn’t making you happy.
• No amount of faith in humanity survives first contact with social media.
• Facts don't care about you being antsy.
• Family is the one thing to truly give you meaning.
• Capitalism is an obsession with money. Socialism is an obsession with other people's money.
• It's hard to teach hate. It's easier to lie about history.

Konstantin Kisin Famous Quotes And Sayings

We’ve all said stupid stuff. But if you go to prison every time you say the wrong thing, that’s a problem. We do need to have soft boundaries on what is and isn’t acceptable. There are always people who will say things that are in their time perceived as unacceptable. Sometimes these people end up being Galileo and sometimes they end up just being pricks. It is the price you pay for living in a free society. — Konstantin Kisin

In life, rewards are rarely linear. You have to work for months and sometimes years with little encouragement or reward to build something that can achieve lift-off. And then you arrive at the next plateau. Where you must work and build again. — Konstantin Kisin

Comedy is downstream of culture, so the job of comedy, in my opinion, is to always be responding to the things that are wrong with society in that moment. Most people say that the job of the comedian is to make people laugh, yes it is but is that all? I don’t think so. I think comedians should be saying: this is what the mainstream narrative is, and here are the holes in it. Comedians should be trying to take society forward, and they should be always pushing back against the mainstream because the mainstream is the authority. Whereas what’s happening now is that you have a culture where comedians are essentially buying into mainstream culture. They are the woke ones; they are the super-woke. Comedians are super-woke. I am massively hated by many people in the comedy world because I’m not. So I’ll have plenty to talk about – no problem there! — Konstantin Kisin

One of the things that I found when I became better known and found myself in all the newspapers is I stopped having opinions on who people are based on their public perception. Because I have the experience on the other side of what it is like for people to have an opinion about you that isn’t based on reality at all. It has made me aware that I maybe don’t know who people are based on what their Twitter says. — Konstantin Kisin

What is going to make you happy? Because let’s be honest, you know, dating apps are not making you happy… Being anti-woke isn’t making you happy. It’s making you miserable. So what is actually going to give you fulfilment and meaning and purpose in your life? — Konstantin Kisin

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. — Konstantin Kisin

I hate identity politics as a concept because what it does is it says there is no such thing as society, there is only individual communities. It takes people to the point whereas a straight white Brexit supporter, people have to go ‘I need my own community’. That’s not what we need. What we need is a society in which everyone is treated equally, including straight white Brexit supporters. — Konstantin Kisin

I don’t think you have a right not to be offended. You have a right not to be physically attacked. I suppose under civil law you have a right not to be slandered and smeared and libelled. I mean, the offence is an entirely subjective thing. You could say something completely innocuous and a person will interpret it as offensive. So no, you don’t have a right not to be offended. — Konstantin Kisin

I actually get invited on TV a lot nowadays, and I don't do as much of it as I used to. And part of the reason is that once you've got the heroin of a long term conversation, why would you drop down to methadone? This is so much more fulfilling and satisfying. We're sitting here for a good chunk of time, you're giving me the space to speak, you're not talking over me, you're not trying to make me look bad, and [in corporate media] you get three minutes to make one point. And look, there's a market out there for that [but] I enjoy this. I enjoy having a conversation and connecting with somebody, getting to know how they think and them getting to know how I think, disagreeing where there's disagreement but doing it in a constructive way as opposed to going for the click bait and all of that. That is a really fulfilling part of doing Triggernometry for me. We get to interview fascinating people and we just sit and learn. How many people get the opportunity to sit down with a great mind for an hour and just engage, and speak, and listen, and think about the world? To me, that is incredibly gratifying. And I don't think that if i was hosting something on TV [that] I'd get a chance to do that. — Konstantin Kisin

Funny how people attack me for going on right-leaning media. Do you know that not one left-leaning publication or TV show has invited me on to talk about my speech? Not one. So whose fault is it, exactly? — Konstantin Kisin

I can tell you, there’s nothing worse than not speaking your mind when you know what the truth is. The material benefits of not doing that – are they worth it? Well, that’s for you to weigh up. And it depends on what the material benefits are. — Konstantin Kisin

Fundamentally every human being’s journey should be about getting to a point of resilience where you’re not affected by what other people say about you. That’s the journey of a human being. If you were truly whole and complete in yourself, someone saying something rude would not affect you. — Konstantin Kisin

We live in a society where what you are allowed and not allowed to say depends on your skin colour, and your gender and your sexual orientation. It is the reverse of Martin Luther King’s dream. Martin Luther King’s dream was that everybody would be treated on the basis of their character. We now live in a world where we are treated on the basis of what our skin colour is and what our gender is and what our sexuality is. People will judge you on what you look like and what your genitals are and who you like to sleep with before they know anything about you. — Konstantin Kisin

Free speech is not some right-wing reframing of whatever; it is the foundation of Western civilization. — Konstantin Kisin

What we have now is a society where certain groups have engineered themselves into a position where they are receiving what they call positive discrimination, which is discrimination. It’s just discrimination against people you’re allowed to discriminate against. And it is dangerous precisely because it drives people into their own space. 'We’re straight white men, we’re being discriminated against, let’s start a straight white men group.' The problem with that is that the one group of people you don’t necessarily want to be angry and organised is straight white men, for historically obvious reasons. — Konstantin Kisin

People are starting to realise that you can’t just bang on about what’s wrong, you have to have a positive vision of the future. — Konstantin Kisin

Everything with jokes is about context. Jimmy Carr makes jokes about Jews. One of his jokes I remember is ‘They say there’s safety in numbers – tell that to 6 million Jews’. You laugh because it is funny. I don’t think Jimmy Carr is Jewish but the thing with that joke is it is primarily about the wordplay. He’s saying that this saying doesn’t always apply and has found a horrific and funny example. I don’t think that makes him anti-Semitic. But there could be a way of doing a joke that is anti-Semitic. No one really knows until you’ve said the joke, this is the thing. It really depends on the context. — Konstantin Kisin

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. — Konstantin Kisin

One of the things I love about the way men communicate with each other is that we can argue, fall out and fight and a few minutes later we can move on and be cool. — Konstantin Kisin

This country is responsible for 2 percent of global carbon emissions, which means that if Britain was to sink into the sea right now it would make absolutely no difference to the issue of climate change. You know why? Because the future of the climate is going to be decided in Asia and in Latin America. By poor people who couldn't give a shit about saving the climate. Do you know why? Because they're poor. 120 million people in China do not have enough food. I don't mean that they don't get desert, I mean they suffer from malnutrition. That means that their immune system is breaking down because they don't have enough food. You're not going to get them to stay poor. — Konstantin Kisin

Freedom, human rights, tolerance, peace and prosperity are like the eternal flame that must be guarded, nurtured and never, ever taken for granted. — Konstantin Kisin

All wokeness has to offer is to brainwash bright young minds like you to believe that you are victims. — Konstantin Kisin

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. — Konstantin Kisin

We come from generations of people who were killed for their beliefs. Well, I'm not going to dishonor them. — Konstantin Kisin

In my opinion, the response to people saying offensive things is to challenge them on it, or to ignore it, or to make fun of it, which is what I do. — Konstantin Kisin

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. — Konstantin Kisin

Our societies would be infinitely better if parents and schools taught children that if you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. Instead they teach that actions don't have consequences and if you play stupid games we'll feel sorry for you. — Konstantin Kisin

Life Lessons by Konstantin Kisin

1. The power of humor: Kisin shows us that comedy can be a potent medium for discussing serious matters.
2. The importance of free speech: Through his work, Kisin continuously champions the right to express one's views openly.
3. The value of perspective: His unique British-Russian background enables him to offer diverse viewpoints, teaching us the importance of understanding and respecting different cultural perspectives.