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If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?

Ai Weiwei

You have so many museums in the West, and so many shows, you need somebody to show the work, otherwise it’s empty.
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Empty Many Museum Need Otherwise Show Somebody West Work
What counts in the end is what the government does.
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Count Doe End Government
Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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Everything Liberty Question Right
Now many enterprises are made by individuals, so the attitude has started to change.
AI WEIWEI

Attitude Change Enterprises Individual Made Started
To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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Express Need Reason Yourself
To the media, I have become a symbolic figure, critical of China. According to the government, I am a dangerous threat.
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Country Critical Dangerous Figure Government Media Symbolic
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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Always Obstacles Question Spending Thinking Time
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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Another Importantly Old People Shared Understand Wonder World Young
Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.
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Disappointment Enemy Experienced Family Growing Joy More Much Sate Up
That’s why I always question this sense. The feeling of home really requires a lot of trust. It requires you to identify with it, which I always find myself very contradictory to.
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Contradictory Feeling Home Identity Question Require Sense Trust
The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.
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Collapse Lst People Power Someone Very Weak Whisper Word
When human beings are scared and feel everything is exposed to the government, we will censor ourselves from free thinking. That’s dangerous for human development.
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Censor Development Everything Exposed Feel Government Ourselves Scared Thinking
The jobs for 7 million university graduates every year, the immense corruption: Even some Western governments would have to scramble to find solutions to such problems.
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Government Graduate Immense Job Million Problem Scramble Seven Solution
We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
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Artist Forced Giving Opinion Say Something
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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China Long Periods
In the end, I think, the state’s rigidity is a function of its own insecurity, its indecisiveness.
AI WEIWEI

End Function Indecisiveness Insecurity Rigidly Thinking

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