Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed?
AI WEIWEIThere isn’t a single Chinese university that can invite me to give a talk. Even though I know there are many students who would like to hear what I have to say.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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I spend a lot of time talking to journalists.
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The relationship between the Chinese government and me is like a Cold War.
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Censorship is saying: “I’m the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine.” But the internet is like a tree that is growing.
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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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You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.
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I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness.
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There are many cases and layers of racist behavior in the US – from police treatment to the issues of education and job opportunities. In America, however, such cases are being discussed publically.
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If it’s possible, I will have some noodles in the morning and start talking to people, start to think about a few things in my head.
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It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that. There are crises and emergencies all the time, we might not even be aware of some. But I am afraid we’ll have to wait and observe precisely what the government is up to.
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The motivation is really to say people can find the game of getting involved interesting and find the problem and really have the passion and the enthusiasm to solve it and move forward, but that’s all I know.
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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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This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.
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For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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The freedom of speech is an important yardstick for a society’s level of civilization.
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