If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
AI WEIWEIThe people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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Chinese government is very clearly losing power in every aspect, but trying to fix up all the problems or potential problems.
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Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.
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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.
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This so-called fame or being better off doesn’t really attract me at all.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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Everything is art. Everything is politics.
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If I look at it, I would laugh. I don’t know how I became successful.
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I never regret anything.
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My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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I also have to speak out for people around me who are afraid, who think it is not worth it or who have totally given up hope. So I want to set an example: you can do it and this is OK, to speak out.
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