Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
AI WEIWEIA historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.
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I think the government regrets having Sina Weibo, but they cannot shut it down. That would definitely be suicidal.
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Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution.
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A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
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My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression, a new way of communication. It is never about exhibiting in museums or about hanging it on the wall.
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I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.
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If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.
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I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.
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They’ve become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.
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I was in the most restricted prison in China, the most tough. The design of the prison is modeled for internal crimes of the Communist party, so it’s like a mafia family’s law. It’s independent to the law this nation openly applies.
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The rest of the world understands little about China’s changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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Man 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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