Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.
AI WEIWEI
AI WEIWEI
More Ai Weiwei quotes
I don’t like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei 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.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei How to become a really modern society when today we are so – as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei There’s no such thing as “fixed” culture. China is also becoming more global. Its problems are becoming international problems, becoming German problems, becoming American problems.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei It also makes humanity much more safe. If we see pureness somewhere as something to be desired, the trouble starts.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei I never think any place is better than others.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Society becomes very destructive.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei Creativity is the power to act.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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