Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.
AI WEIWEIThe 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.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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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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[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.
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I think by not letting young people be fully informed, how can they have energy and passion and the right picture of the world? I think that’s the true crime.
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I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.
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A state like China looks so powerful, but they are so scared of the Internet, so the Internet is more powerful than them.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.
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My typical day is I wake up and appreciate that I can still wake up.
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They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own – cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.
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This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years.
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You only have temporary curiosity, amusement, and challenges, but that does not necessarily mean you are really convinced that it’s necessary or that it’s not even worth to do it.
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A small act is worth a million thoughts.
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To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life and another level of feeling.
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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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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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