So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.
AI WEIWEIThe practice of photography is no longer a means for recording reality. Instead, it has become reality itself
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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You know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today’s life and no discussion of the real conditions – which is really sickening.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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I don’t think China has professional museums – not in the past, present, or near future.
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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.
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Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.
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People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China’s relationship with the outside world.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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Society becomes very destructive.
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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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Everything is selected by the central government without good judgment or an understanding of culture to make it really safe. They will become nobody to maintain their power and be raised to the next higher level.
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I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years.
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