It’s really rubbish that some kind of “technical” learning means you will be a better person because you know this skill better.
AI WEIWEII think to deal with the situation like human crisis, 65 million people being displaced, lost their home, and with such human tragedy, has to make every level of society to be conscious and to be alert about the situation.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The Internet changes the structure of society all the time — this massiveness made of individuals.
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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It’s very materialistic. It’s full of desire and luxury goods.
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You can never know what is and what is not powerful, but you can always find out what the powerful people are scared of.
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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I don’t think China should care if this crazy old guy should have a show here or not.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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I deal with students every day – from China, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong and Taiwan. And I’ve noticed that the Chinese students are the least trained in having a sense of aesthetics.
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For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes.
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Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
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Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.
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Otherwise, I think the building can be bigger, larger, and the city can be much more crazy. The problem is the government structure is so deadly stupid, not really solving problems but creating a lot of problems itself every day.
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I also doubt a man can give really clear reasons for anything.
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Life is never guaranteed to be safe, so we better use it while we are still in good condition.
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Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.
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If people are being abused or even killed during an arrest, this is highly disturbing.
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