"When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world"
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The subtext is a familiar move in post-Soviet leadership rhetoric, especially in a country like Uzbekistan where Karimov built legitimacy on stability, sovereignty, and national revival after 1991. “Liberty” here functions less like an enforceable set of rights and more like a moral horizon - something people “wish” for, not something they organize to compel. The sentence subtly recenters agency away from institutions and toward personal striving, a framing that praises patience and private virtue over public pressure.
Context sharpens the tension. Karimov’s rule is widely associated with tight political control and harsh responses to dissent. Against that backdrop, the quote reads as both aspiration and insulation: it borrows the prestige of justice-language while keeping it comfortably abstract. Its intent is to claim the ethical high ground, to speak in the register of history and destiny, even when the messy mechanisms of accountability are left offstage.
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| Topic | Justice |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Karimov, Islom. (2026, January 17). When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-there-is-life-and-mankind-a-person-will-live-55623/
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Karimov, Islom. "When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-there-is-life-and-mankind-a-person-will-live-55623/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/when-there-is-life-and-mankind-a-person-will-live-55623/. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.











