It’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
AI WEIWEIIt’s not really an ideology, but a method of control. But China’s problems are not just China’s problems – they’re human problems. Humanity has always worked better when you see it as one.
AI WEIWEII never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].
AI WEIWEIIn my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.
AI WEIWEIWe are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.
AI WEIWEIYour own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.
AI WEIWEIEveryone of us is a potential convict.
AI WEIWEIChoices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
AI WEIWEI…photographs are facts, but not necessarily true… The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.
AI WEIWEII never had a sense of home.
AI WEIWEIIf there’s the right condition, I always want to express the concept or ideas in a very independent way.
AI WEIWEIIf civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?
AI WEIWEILife is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
AI WEIWEII never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me.
AI WEIWEII spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
AI WEIWEIThese folks are creative and ironic, and the government can ultimately not control what is going on in their heads.
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.
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