I never think any place is better than others.
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More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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It is to wonder about the world, to understand the nature of people and, most importantly, to be shared with another, old or young, known or unknown.
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It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
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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.
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A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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I came back [to Beijing ] because that’s the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.
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Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
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They very often just try to cope with their own election, their own popularity, solving the problem or selling the ideas to meet their own voters. By doing that, it creates a great imbalance in terms of making deals or treaty or all those things.
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The Internet has established a public sphere and developed a pressure which the government can no longer ignore.
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Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China’s society is opening.
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Any politician who respects China’s government should tell it openly what is in his heart. It is disrespectful to keep quiet about such issues – both vis-a-vis the government and the people concerned.
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Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.
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