My angst and my insecurity reflect the state’s angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.
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More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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We move so fast that memory is something we can only grasp
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We are not on – even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.
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So, the politicians and the people who make decisions very often is the one we think can make some difference. But of course they will not make a difference if the citizens or the individuals not push it or not to speak out, to possess a very strong voice about, this is not acceptable.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.
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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.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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During the days in detention, I thought most about the moon.
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Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don’t think art is elite or mysterious. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics.
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These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.
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The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness – doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement.
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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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No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.
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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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The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it…it’s very disturbing.
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