It’s like the mountains, the ocean and the rivers. It has its own geological forms. Societies cannot be flat. But during change, human rights, human dignity and free speech have to be protected. Otherwise, we’ll be going backward.
The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.
Even today the borders they’re seeing the physical borders are very different from the political borders. Because all those powers are so connected, and you cannot even see whose interest in what move.
[Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.
I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted, but at the same time it’s really useless.
![Ai Weiwei Quote - Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don’t design it, somebody else has to design it.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/many-people-are-going-to-use-beijing-national-stad-683x1024.jpg)
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![Ai Weiwei Quote - I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/i-curated-this-show-shanghai-biennale-i-was-by-no--683x1024.jpg)
