Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
AI WEIWEIMan has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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I don’t belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.
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Civilization has evolved toward more acceptance, understanding and tolerance of global thinking. If we accept differences, our creativity booms. It makes life much more colorful.
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It [success] is really by mistake.
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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
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It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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We’re different, and you’re dangerous.” That kind of thinking stops human, civilized evolution. It’s dangerous to create that kind of tension.
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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I don’t believe in a sense of home.
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