Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
AI WEIWEIEven if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.
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I want people to see their own power.
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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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Imagine one day, the hateful world around you collapses. And it is your attitude, words and actions that put an end to it. Will you be excited?
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It’s the place they take you before they give you over to the judicial system. You stay there for a year or two and they make you really suffer to confess everything.
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Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one’s imagination – perhaps more importantly – creativity is the power to act.
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[Museums] all belongs to the cultural department, which is the biggest cultural department in the world.
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In China, we don’t have any contemporary art museums. Until a few years ago, we didn’t even have a gallery.
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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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A few thousand are to be built in the next few years, all using taxpayer money. But there is no system, no research, no content, no good programs, no good managers.
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Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.
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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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Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.
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Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.
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I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn’t move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.
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