If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
AI WEIWEIThere are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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I have always stated I designed the stadium as a toilet seat.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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I’m totally independent. I don’t bear any responsibility to any system.
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I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it.
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